A colossal strolling Pinocchio that was greeted with more outrage than whimsy.

These whimsical rabbit figures are not as innocent as they might look.

Legend has it that this church faced a troll problem, leading to the affixing of a stone face of Satan above the entrance to deter further encounters.

This bronze marker acknowledges an embarrassing royal blunder.

These waste baskets play a few risque messages to discourage littering.

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

This statue standing near Sweden's southernmost point was based on the grandmother of a modern movie star.

According to local lore, a flying dragon was blinded by a lighthouse and crashed, leaving a permanent mark on this island rock.

One of the longest footbridges in Europe.

The suspected burial mound of legendary Viking Björn Ironside.

At low tide, you can see the remains of a 17th-century ship just off a Stockholm island.

These life-sized mosaic reptiles, crafted using ceramics from a local toilet factory, link the town's industrial heritage with its prehistoric past.

An artist's mausoleum with a haunting echo.

This handsomely carved wooden church is more than 800 years old.

The Brutalist building harbors an unusual inverted dome that swoops down over its central sacred room.

Oslo's historic toboggan run has been letting thrill seekers slide from train stop to train stop for over a century.

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

A microbiologist-chef is slinging noodles with hyperlocal Nordic ingredients.

The remains of a German plane still sit in the Norwegian wood where it crashed in 1942.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

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

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

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

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