Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

Kitschy horror displays now fill the house where some very real serial killing took place.

If you can look past the nearby sewer pipes, this urban sinkhole grotto is a mini-paradise.

Inside this mountain lies several kilometers of breathtaking caves.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

High atop a Mexican rainforest mountain, this ancient pyramid once drew pilgrims countries away.

Grand Cayman is home to a colorful sculpture garden filled with giant concrete animals.

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

Tucked away in a secluded canyon, this hidden hot spring’s thermal waters have been soothing soakers for generations.

A quarter-scale locomotive wonderland built by one man and his family.

There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

An elegant garden commemorating the 1841 visit from apostle and missionary, Orson Hyde.

The corpse bride of Portugal.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

German-style coffee and cake, just like Oma used to make it.

Pickles belong on pizza and this freewheeling outpost proves it.

Drink and dine in a coral cave that's at least 120,000 years old.

This modern tandoor eatery was once a canteen for Soviet farmers.

The hot chocolate here all stems from small, sustainable microproducers in Chiapas and Tabasco.