St George's Leprosy Museum depicts the gruesome afflictions of those suffering from the disease.

Walk behind a 50-meter-high waterfall.

A little Lady Liberty stands in the Norway town where the copper for the real thing came from.

A small collection of magic tricks and memorabilia is now an apartment-sized museum.

This record shop and unofficial black metal museum is an ode to Oslo's heaviest musical export.

The former home of Norway's greatest romantic composer.

Once the scene of a young boy's home in revolt, this Norwegian island is now home to the world's first "ecological" prison.

In downtown Oslo, a menacing and terrifying relief clings to a church wall.

This one-room museum is dedicated to Norwegian history and jokes.

Norway's national monument to fallen seamen.

Art becomes an enchanting part of the environment at this wooded sculpture park.

The painter of "The Scream" is laid to rest under a stoic bust of himself in the humble corner of an Oslo cemetery.

Housing the famous Norwegian ice-defying 19th century polar exploration ship.

Norway's oldest cathedral still in use.

Tens of thousands of tiny bottles stuffed with various items.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

The world's northernmost aquarium looks like it has fallen over.

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

An artist's mausoleum with a haunting echo.

Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.

A stunning silver lining to global warming's gloomy cloud.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

The convergence of two currents makes this a surprisingly pleasant getaway in the Arctic Circle.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.