This charming old building's loose connection with the Scottish Reformer is what saved it from demolition after it split apart.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

Before it was buried by volcanic ash, this fast-food restaurant fed the hungry hordes of ancient Rome.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

This amazingly well-preserved villa just outside Pompeii boasts rare examples of ancient Roman paintings.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

A magnificent waterfall nestled in the heart of the El Yunque National Forest.

Feast on twice-cooked goat with plantains and other Haitian street food dishes.

Chef Serigne Mbaye weaves stories through his carefully composed modern Senegalese tasting menus.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

Chicago’s last original drive-in restaurant is a family-run hot dog joint that started in 1948.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

A fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.

Lake within a lake.

Beneath its placid surface, one of New York City's primary sources of drinking water hides a haunted past.

An Iron Age fort on the edge of a seaside cliff offers a glimpse into an ancient, mystical world.