More than 200 sculptures in bronze, granite and iron by Gustav Vigeland, showing people of all ages in every stage of life, laid out in Frogner Park. The centrepiece is the Monolith, a 14 m column of 121 intertwined human figures, and the famous bronze 'Angry Boy'.
It's free and open all the time. In Oslo, also see the new Munch Museum with The Scream, the Opera House, whose sloping roof you can walk on, and the Viking Age museum on the Bygdøy peninsula.
A striking white marble and glass building that seems to rise out of the Oslofjord, home of the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, opened in 2008.
Jotunheimen, 'home of the giants', is Norway's great mountain national park, with the country's highest peaks, including Galdhøpiggen (2,469 m).
A spectacular rock ledge sticking out horizontally 700 m above Lake Ringedalsvatnet, one of the most famous photo spots in Norway.
One of the steepest standard-gauge railways in the world, climbing 863 m in 20 km from Flåm at the end of the Aurlandsfjord to Myrdal on the Bergen l…
Kjerag is a mountain plateau 1,000 m above the Lysefjord, and Kjeragbolten is the famous boulder wedged in a crack between two cliffs, where brave hi…
A flat-topped cliff jutting out 604 m above the Lysefjord, one of Norway's most famous viewpoints.
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