Norway

The surviving Hanseatic trading wharf in Bergen, rebuilt after multiple fires but preserving the medieval street pattern and the distinctive wooden row of buildings that made it the centre of the North Sea stockfish trade.

Norway's most celebrated fjord, a 15-kilometre glacial arm walled by mountains up to 1,600 metres high, with the Seven Sisters and Suitor waterfalls plunging from plateau to waterline.

A striking modern parish church and concert venue in Tromsø, completed in 1965 with an angular aluminium and titanium-clad exterior that has become the visual symbol of Arctic Norway and a focal point for experiencing the aurora borealis.

A flat plateau of ancient rock jutting over the Lysefjord at 604 metres vertical height, requiring a 4-kilometre mountain hike to reach one of Norway's most famous and vertigo-inducing natural viewpoints.

A dramatic horizontal rock ledge jutting over Lake Ringedals in western Norway, demanding a full-day alpine hike to reach one of the most vertigo-inducing natural viewpoints in Scandinavia.

Purpose-built museum on the Bygdøy peninsula in Oslo housing the Oseberg, Gokstad and Tune Viking ships, three of the best-preserved Viking-era vessels in existence, discovered in burial mounds between 1880 and 1904.