Downtown Helsinki and Suomenlinna. The wide cobblestone streets of downtown are rich with historic architecture, notably in the ornate Helsinki Cathedral.

Helsinki’s downtown Design District is home to a conglomeration of shops, galleries, restaurants and museums. It’s simply fun to stroll and look around. Make sure to check out the Design Museum.

Helsinki’s geography, with a thick layer of bedrock just under the ground, has made the city uniquely suited to build state-of-the-art infrastructure underground–from data centers and hidden ...

Too often, American explorations of Europe tend to be limited to a narrow band of cities and hotspots. We’re not going to fault you if you’ve taken the popular London-Paris-Amalfi path. There ...

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At its peak, Helsinki basks in nearly 19 hours of daylight, ... SalamaNation is a beer bar in the downtown Kamppi neighborhood with 20 taps, most dedicated to Finnish craft breweries.

Finland’s oldest mental hospital, in Helsinki, may sound an unlikely tourist attraction, but visitors can enjoy history tours, foraging for mushrooms on its grounds, or a picnic on its beach.

"I've been a merchant for 20 years and I've never seen so much of it," the manager of a neighbourhood K-Market said.

In downtown Helsinki, the remains of millions of animals and plants rest in cabinets in the long hallways of the Finnish Museum of Natural History. They've been collected over 300 years, and in the ...