Sidle into a side alley for a taste of sumo wrestlers' traditional hot-pot soup, in a tiny restaurant founded by a former competitor.

This tiny museum hidden above a restaurant houses thousands of modern and traditional kites.

The largest volcanic caldera in Japan holds an entire city in its maw.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

Unusual hexagonal rocks formed by cooling lava named for their resemblance to traditional Japanese tatami mats.

Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

The world's northernmost brewery uses water from a 2,000-year-old glacier to create its beer.

The oldest functional consecrated church on Mustang Island.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

An underground nightclub helped spark a "Singing Revolution."

This stoic bronze soldier stands as a symbol of Russian sacrifice or Soviet oppression, or maybe both.

This former medieval prison now unlocks Estonia’s rich photographic history.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

This ten-ton fruit sculpture celebrates the Finland homeland.

The grandest stage for the world's foremost masters of invisible instruments.

This abandoned villa of makeshift buildings was once the home of dancer Elis Sinistö.

A long-disputed lighthouse built on the wrong side of a Finnish/Swedish island.

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

A giant gorilla made of used car tires used to sit sentinel over a Helsinki college campus.

This modernist island church incorporates the Finnish nature into its worship practices.

Pigduck of Turku.