This Arctic mining town is home to a cat that's spent years masquerading as a fox.

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

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

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

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

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

In a country where driving from one town to another is literally impossible, this small stretch of gravel is a remarkable feat.

Thousands of letters to Santa get delivered to this mailbox in Greenland.

Greenland's first shopping mall also hosts the country's government.

This massive Trojan ursine was built to be a new tourist symbol for a small Swedish town.

The smallest restaurant in the world.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

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

At this Arctic outpost, get to know members of the indigenous Sámi community and meet their herds.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

Cold storage for agricultural biodiversity.

The world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.

A remains of a stone shelter are a reminder of "The Worst Journey in the World."

The birthplace of the very first human resident born in Antarctica.

Scientists use one of the saltiest bodies of water on Earth as a terrestrial base for studying water on Mars.

One of only two civilian settlements in the desolate lands of chilly Antarctica.

At the point of oceanic inaccessibility, you can't get farther from dry land without leaving the planet.

The world's largest neutrino telescope searches for secrets of the universe at the South Pole.

The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.