These tiny pine-covered islands have inspired art and poetry for centuries.

Officially the lowest mountain in Japan.

One of the tallest statues in the world, and the tallest statue of a goddess in Japan.

In one of the world's smallest countries, a royal's personal winery is open to the public.

The social hall of this former factory is a Communist-era time capsule.

A decaying, yet still functioning, work of communist architecture.

Rebuilt several decades ago, its striking murals prevent it from being reconsecrated as a church.

An homage to the medieval rulers of Bulgaria.

Lone survivor from Custer's Last Stand forever preserved.

A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.

A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

This historic railroad hotel built from Kansas limestone was once the most popular hotels for traveling salesmen in the midwest.

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

This tiny old water tower once doubled as a makeshift jail.

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

Relics from an era long gone, sit idle outside this Estonian museum.

Estonia's largest creative city is a vibrant bohemian hub located within a former industrial complex.

The oldest church in the Estonian capital is home to over 100 fantastical cemetery coats-of-arms.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

An underground nightclub helped spark a "Singing Revolution."

The oldest continuously operating pharmacy in Europe.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

Romania's triumphal arch looks out over Bucharest.