Australia's only active volcanoes and highest peak are located on these remote islands thousands of miles away from the mainland.

Bizarrely shaped rock formations in northwest Bulgaria come with equally bizarre legends.

The temple that withstood the Nazis.

A Bulgarian monument to Russia's role in World War II is constantly being painted in pop culture protest.

Sofia's legislative center is continuously reinventing itself.

"Holy Wisdom" overlooks the city that became its namesake.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

A science teacher's dream.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

Where Cusack's record store from the film "High Fidelity" was located.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

Climb atop one of the world's longest and heaviest trains for an unbelievable journey across the Sahara Desert.

The most remote tree in the world is more than 170 miles from its nearest neighbor.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

The secret room where early Bolsheviks cranked out propaganda fliers on a smuggled printing press.

A massive wintry wall of snow up to 66 feet tall flanks a highway through Japan's mountains.

Historical Japanese-Dutch relations are honored with haunted rides and flower fields in this replica town.

The world's largest drain sits below the city of Kasukabe, Japan.

Enormous underground chamber built to detect 'ghost particles' of the universe.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

A sweet tribute to Georgia's official state vegetable, which even has its own mascot: "Yumion."