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

The design of this beautifully crafted building was inspired by Norwegian glaciers.

This floating sculpture of ice is a poignant reminder of nature's power.

This "preacher's pulpit" once used for pagan ritual, is home to a new, and dangerous ritual.

A reconstructed farm shows what life was like in Norway 1,500 years ago.

A favorite with sightseers, this Norwegian funicular provides easy access to a stunning view of Bergen and its environs.

A Viking-style brewpub named for a Norse sea giant, in the heart of fjord country.

Longest road tunnel in the world features an air treatment plant and the illusion of daylight.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

The world's most charming instant portrait studio also happens to be its smallest.

This functioning parish church is also the site of many concert performances due to its wonderful acoustics.

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

The great polar explorer is remembered in this far northern town, where he embarked on his final expedition.

The people murdered during a 17th-century Norwegian witch hunt have been honored with a pair of stark, modern installations.

The location of the Bridge of Death and the Gorge of Eternal Peril in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

This eclectic sanctuary is a hodgepodge of various architectural styles, all crammed into one building.

Overlooking a Scottish loch, this beautifully crumbling castle once inspired a poem by William Wordsworth.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

This standing stone has a unique backdrop thanks to some of the United Kingdom's best-rated beaches.

The ruins of a medieval seminary some say is the oldest university site in Scotland.

Taking the subway here means doing so over a bridge located in the middle of an estuary.

The original film set of Luke Skywalker's Tatooine home from the 'Star Wars' trilogy.

Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.

This Soviet-era "closed town" was a top secret uranium producer often left off of maps.