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This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

This Turkish cave boasts some rather bizarre associations with the King of Mount Olympus.

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

This secret coastal village is studded with pastel-colored houses all piled on top of one another.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.

The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.