This former farm In northern Iceland is now a museum, where visitors can tour beautifully-preserved turf houses.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

This black church sits alone among a field of lava rock.

This scenic Icelandic lava flow is named for a pair of Berserkers who were murdered, according to a famous Saga.

Europe’s most powerful hot spring supplies the surrounding region with hot water.

This hobbit-y little hot spring may be the oldest spring used by humans in all of Iceland.

Though they may seem like simple stones, these rocks represent a ghostly legend.

Pick up this rock and become an instant legend.

This unassuming oil well changed the history of the Arabian Gulf.

A wide array of locomotives call this outdoor museum home.

A memorial to the murdered Jews of Kaunas.

A century-old prison in the heart of Vilnius is now a lively bar, dance club, and artist residency.

This former KGB building is now a museum memorializing the people who suffered during the Soviet regime.

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

Things aren't quite what they seem at this mind-bending museum.

Rub it for a bit of good luck.

The largest coin pyramid in the world is a carefully balanced stack of over 1,000,000 pieces.

Where a Japanese government official issued transit visas to Jews fleeing from Nazi-occupied Poland.

The world's first invisible city square is an homage to a man who pushed the boundaries of art.

This sea stack in Cyprus is traditionally seen as the birthplace of the goddess Aphrodite.

One artist's collection of homemade handicrafts doubles as a monument to 20th-century material culture.

When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.

Legend has it the lovelorn tears of a princess and a shepherd boy formed the blue and green twin lakes in the Azores archipelago.

This abandoned five-star hotel is now a five-star urban exploration destination.