Sapporo, Japan
Dog's Roasted Sweet Potato Stand
The only thing sweeter than the potatoes is the canine proprietor of this roadside stall.
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Sapporo, Japan
The only thing sweeter than the potatoes is the canine proprietor of this roadside stall.
Odiham, England
A rare survivor from the age of plagues.
Auvers-sur-Oise, France
The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.
Palermo, Italy
Haunting graffiti left by prisoners of the Spanish Inquisition.
Garenin, Scotland
Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.
Lancashire, England
This antique shop and tea room reside inside a twice defunct church that was moved stone by stone to its current location.
Galway, Ireland
At this cozy bar tucked down a hidden Galway backroad, Guinness makes the Gaelic come out.
Mount Joy, Pennsylvania
In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.
Somerset, England
The ruined abbey includes a rare surviving example of a monastic latrine.
L'Aquila, Italy
A medieval fountain lined with 99 unique stone faces whose origins and meaning remain unknown.
Padua, Italy
The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."
Milan, Italy
Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sail in for a ’dam good slice.
Lecarrow, Ireland
Wander among the abandoned ruins of this once-powerful medieval town.
Guthrie, Oklahoma
A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.
Cuilapam de Guerrero, Mexico
This exquisite example of early colonial architecture remains unfinished almost 500 years after construction began.
Provins, France
An atmospheric, medieval-themed book store hides in a 13th-century underground space.
Bristol, England
A medieval cave used to shelter local hermits now holds nearly 200 old Quaker gravestones.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.
Rome, Italy
Remnants of a 4th-century church with vivid medieval frescoes and ancient sarcophagi hide beneath this old basilica.
Salamanca, Spain
A hidden medieval crypt where a famous legend says the devil used to teach black magic.
Queens, New York
A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This 16th-century close preserves an unusual piece of Edinburgh's transportation history.
Toa Baja, Puerto Rico
The crumbling remnants of this 19th-century quarantine hospital hint at the touristy island's darker past.