Climbers, surfers and cyclists love the emptiness, while fishing enthusiasts can dodge the whirlpools of the Moskenstraumen and follow in the oar-strokes of the Vikings.

Talent: Comedy duo Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead) team up with Seth Rogen (The Green Hornet), who voices the extraterrestrial. Greg Mottola (Adventureland) directs.

Henry Meiggs, builder of Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, constructed a gravity-defying railroad past Toromocho inthe 1870s to carry riches from the Andes.