Emanuel Vigeland Museum
8 Gravdalsveien, Vestre Aker, Oslo, 0756, Norway
This is Oslo's strangest museum, and possibly the strangest museum in Scandinavia.
Grünerløkka & Birkelunden
Thorvald Meyers gate, Grünerløkka, Oslo, 0555, Norway
Before it was Oslo's coolest neighborhood, Grünerløkka was one of its poorest.
Grünerløkka Brygghus
30B Thorvald Meyers gate, Grünerløkka, Oslo, 0555, Norway
Norway's relationship with alcohol is famously complicated.
Karl Johans gate
Karl Johans gate, Sentrum, Oslo, 0159, Norway
This street connects three pillars of Norwegian governance in a single straight line: the Royal Palace at one end, the Parliament in the middle, and the Cathedral near the other.
Mathallen Oslo
5 Vulkan, Grünerløkka, Oslo, 0178, Norway
The building that now houses Oslo's best food hall used to produce steel bridges.
Norwegian Folk Museum
10 Museumsveien, Frogner, Oslo, 0287, Norway
In the 1880s, a parish in Gol wanted to demolish its old stave church to build a shiny new one.
Oslo Cathedral
11 Karl Johans gate, Sentrum, Oslo, 0154, Norway
This is Oslo's third attempt at a cathedral.
Oslo Opera House
Kirsten Flagstads plass 1, 0150 Oslo
This is the only opera house in the world where you're encouraged to walk on the roof.
Oslo Street Food
Torggata 16, 0181 Oslo
The building used to be a swimming pool.
The Barcode
Dronning Eufemias gate, Gamle Oslo, Oslo, 0191, Norway
When aerial photos of this development first circulated, someone pointed out that the row of high-rises looked like an electronic barcode.
Vigeland Sculpture Park
32 Nobels gate, Frogner, Oslo, 0268, Norway
Two hundred and twelve sculptures by one artist, spread across eighty acres, open twenty-four hours a day, every day of the year, completely free.
Vulkan
Vulkan 5, 0178 Oslo
The neighborhood is named after Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalworking, because this stretch of the Akerselva river has been a foundry district since the Middle Ages.
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