A 15-foot-tall statue of the head of the Sopranos family greets passengers at a train station in southeastern Lithuania.

This mosque turned crypt is an amazing display of Persian-Islamic architecture.

The crumbling remains of Juneau's explosives storage site.

A smoky doorway in Dakar leads to one of the city’s great communal eating experiences.

The largest of its kind in Japan, this century-old wasabi farm is also known for its appearance in an Akira Kurosawa film.

An islet filled with wooden houses where the open sea meets a lagoon.

The world's largest anatomically accurate brain sculpture.

This monument depicts a harrowing event involving an escaped polar bear.

Built to transport German U-boats through the never-completed Masurian Canal, the locks near this Polish village are now home to a rope course.

More than 300 years old, Kyoto's historic "teahouse" still operates as an invitation-only geisha club.

This unique sculpture proved invaluable when it saved a train from careening off the tracks.

On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear device was detonated here in granite some 1,211 feet below the ground surface.

Fiery-hot river rocks make soup sizzle at this restaurant showcasing indigenous Chinantec cuisine.

Hidden in the Chihuahuan Desert resides an amazing collection of petroglyphs.

The largest tea plantation in Southeast Asia supplies gorgeous vistas alongside tea for the surrounding countries.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

Considered by many to be one of the most dangerous highways in Alaska.

A network of underground water channels that dates back to the Middle Ages.

This 1960's Soviet submarine in Peenemünde Harbor claims to be the largest submarine museum in the world.

Not far from the busy city lie these remains of a time when the world was on fire.

The headquarters of Korea’s provisional government later became the site of a prominent statesman's assassination.

This tiny stone in a children's park is what remains of an ancient, once-worshipped object.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

A collection of old steam and diesel locomotives sitting in a fenced-off garden.