Brother to the more celebrated Gustav Vigeland, Emanuel Vigeland (1875-1948) will be remembered through his own strange and enchanting artistic work. Dubbed Oslo's best-kept-secret, the Emanuel... »

Museums and Collections, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries | Edited by A Facebook user, Dylan and others

Steinsdalsfossen waterfall is one of the most visited attractions in Norway for good reason - it has a path behind it which allow visitors to have a closer look at the falls. At night, the water... »

Watery Wonders | Edited by Alpha, Annetta and others

The Aurland Lookout towers nearly 2,000 feet above the scenic landscape of Aurland, Norway. Designed by architects Todd Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmsen in 2005, the wooden structure juts out... »

Natural Wonders, Architectural Oddities | Edited by anhie and Dylan

Trolltunga is another spectacular example of the geological oddities that dot the Norwegian landscape. The fittingly named 'Troll's Tongue' sticks out of a vertical mountain side above a 350m... »

Geological Oddities | Edited by stanestane and Dylan

The longest tunnel in the world extends 15.2 miles (24.5 km) between the cities of Laerdal and Aurland in western Norway. Known as the Lærdal Tunnel (or Lærdalstunnelen in Norwegian), the tunnel's... »

Inspired Inventions, Architectural Oddities | Edited by anhie

When the glaciers carved Norway out of the living rock, the ice giants must have created Preikestolen with BASE jumpers in mind. This unusually shaped, massive rectangular cliff rises 604m above... »

Geological Oddities, Long Now Locations | Edited by stanestane, Clinton and others

In 1947 Thor Heyerdahl and a crew of five others sailed 4300 miles, from Peru to the Pacific islands, in a raft they had constructed from balsa wood. Many people thought it was a suicide mission,... »

Strange Science | Edited by stanestane

Hidden in the Norwegian mountains, Kjeragbolten is a place that looks like something from Middle Earth. Kjeragbolten is a boulder wedged in a mountain crevasse by the edge of the Kjerag... »

Natural Wonders, Geological Oddities | Edited by stanestane, wythe and others

Though the Jostedal glacier had bucked the trend by advancing throughout much of the last decade, the glacier's winning streak came to an end in 2006 when it began retreating along with its other... »

Natural Wonders, Watery Wonders, Curious Caves | Edited by littlebrumble

The St. George's Leprosy Museum or "Lepramuseet" in Bergen, Norway is housed in an eighteenth century building, part of St. Georges hospital, once used to house lepers. It was also where Gerhard... »

Pharmacy Museums, Medical Museums | Edited by jiblite