The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

The world's northernmost botanic garden has 25 collections of plants from arctic and alpine regions.

Citizens of Norway want to gift the peak of Mount Halti to Finland for its 100th birthday.

Thousands of years of crashing waves gave this mushroom-shaped rock its svelte figure.

One thousand trees were planted in Norway to be used to print books a century from now.

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."

Where a troll might repair your shoes in exchange for a bowl of porridge.

Buried beneath an unassuming Gotland farm was the largest collection of Viking silver, mostly of Islamic origin.

The final resting place of the father of modern biological taxonomy.

At this bohemian accommodation, guests who dream of joining the circus can spend the night in themed wagons.

The ruins of a monastery where Saint Bridget of Sweden had her revelations recorded.

What was once believed to be a church floor turned out to be the artwork of geology.

According to legend, this structure was inspired by the Tower of Babel and built in a 19th-century industrialist's yard so he could walk his dogs without leaving home.

This Danish rock field is actually a sprawling ancient cemetery holding the bodies of 700 Vikings.

The original home of the Lego has a huge amusement park dedicated to the iconic plastic toy.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

The machines behind the famous handblown glass from Sweden's "Kingdom of Crystal."

The church's remarkable frescoes incorporate Finnish artist Hugh Simberg's trademark themes of death and the supernatural.

A small island dotted with old, historic Finnish buildings.

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.

The concrete skeletons of an abandoned Swedish town hide among the trees.

A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.