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The hot tamale recipe started it all, but the steaks have kept this place very much on the map.

Greenville, Mississippi

Doe's Eat Place

In the mid-20th century, a tamale-slinging juke joint attracted a diverse clientele in the Mississippi Delta.

Spices at Anjuna Flea Market

Anjuna, India

Anjuna Flea Market

This weekly bazaar started in the 1960s as a way for hippie travelers to barter their goods.

The Igloo Soft Freeze

Everett, Pennsylvania

The Igloo Soft Freeze

Built in the 1970s, this curious modular home found new life as a sundae-shaped ice cream stand.

Model showing the layout of the streets of Mexicaltitán.

Mexcaltitán de Uribe, Mexico

Mexicaltitán de Uribe

Legend says this tiny ancient island is the lost ancestral homeland of the Aztecs.

An old storefront in Molson.

Molson, Washington

Okanogan Highland Ghost Towns

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

Bats outside Cairns library.

Cairns, Australia

Cairns Library Bats

These flying foxes dangle from the trees around the library like fuzzy black fruit.

Cedar Lakes Woods.

Williston, Florida

Cedar Lakes Woods

A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.

The bank on Failaka Island.

Zoor, Kuwait

Failaka Island

Wander among the ghostly ruins of an island where civilization flourished for thousands of years.

The authentic pirate treasure.

Yarmouth, Massachusetts

Whydah Pirate Museum

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

Coatlicue, the devouring mother goddess and admirers.

Mexico City, Mexico

Coatlicue Statue

Come face to face with the ferocious visage of the serpent-headed mother goddess of the Aztecs.

Inside the masonry ruins.

Quebradillas, Puerto Rico

Puerto Hermina Ruins

Legend has it this historic port was a popular hideout and smuggling spot for pirates.

The outside of the church.

Nardò, Italy

Monteruga Ghost Town

A fascist-era rural village abandoned since the early 1980s.

Embedded human bones in the wall.

Cáceres, Spain

Don Alvaro Alley

Fragments of human bones are embedded in the walls of this quaint alley.

Ocean Rider Seahorse Farm.

Kailua, Hawaii

Ocean Rider Seahorse Farm

Get up close and personal with these majestic fish.

Neanderthal hands, jawbones, and bones.

Oviedo, Spain

El Sidrón Neanderthal Bones

It's believed these prehistoric individuals were the victims of cannibalism.

ZJNU Museum of African Culture

Jinhua, China

ZJNU Museum of African Culture

A museum at a Chinese university is the first of its kind in the country.

The Cloverland Garage.

Asotin, Washington

Cloverland Ghost Town

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

The entrance to school, covered in vines.

Pomeroy, Ohio

Kerr’s Run Colored School

This schoolhouse for Black American children is one of the oldest remaining in southeastern Ohio.

Torre Miramar (Miramar Tower).

Valencia, Spain

Torre Miramar (Miramar Tower)

This abandoned viewing platform has become a monument to unnecessary government spending.

Cenote San Lorenzo Oxman

Valladolid, Mexico

Cenote San Lorenzo Oxman

Found down a long dirt road, a sacred Mexican cenote and 18th-century hacienda remain hidden.

Prehistoric painting of horses at Tito Bustillo cave.

Ribadesella, Spain

Tito Bustillo Cave

A magnificent place to see authentic paleolithic cave paintings that are an astounding 33,000 years old.

The ruins of the Ritter Lumber Company's sawmill at Hazel Creek near Proctor.

Bryson City, North Carolina

The Lost Town of Proctor

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

A contemplative jaguar

Lumigny-Nesles-Ormeaux, France

Parc des Félins

A unique zoological park home to over 30 species of wild cats, both big and small.

Bluie East Two.

Ikateq, Greenland

Bluie East Two

A surprisingly beautiful abandoned World War II military base in East Greenland.

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