A closer look

Norway features a remarkably quaint little town officially named Hell, which predictably freezes over entirely every single winter due to the unforgiving Scandinavian climate. Thousands of tourists gleefully flock to the local train station year after year just to take a deeply unoriginal selfie in front of the sign while shivering in sub-zero temperatures. It is the ultimate dad-joke destination, allowing global travelers to smugly declare that they have indeed purchased a one-way ticket to eternal damnation, only to find out that the underworld actually consists of polite locals, very expensive coffee, and a severe lack of fire and brimstone