The pyramid and dome deep inside the Dzūkija forest are believed to channel divine energy.

The first museum dedicated to exploring humanity's cultural relationship with the celestial world.

Legend has it that Napoleon Bonaparte fell in love with this Gothic church.

These traffic lights celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the women's suffrage movement in Lithuania.

Travelers who fall victim to this mermaid's charms are destined to stay in Užupis forever.

Lithuania's outdoor sculpture trail of wooden folk art.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.

A collection of collections ranging from dentistry to minerals.

Menacing or in memoriam, the Silent People and their meaning are left to interpretation.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

No matter how many times this community-run sauna gets destroyed, it always rises from the ashes.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Russian history in San Francisco.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.