In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

This eatery transports diners to a place that no longer exists: East Germany.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

This peaceful Sikh gurudwara serves around 50,000 free meals every day within its gilded walls.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

This centuries-old pub boasts a collection of more than 4,500 snippets of neckties from around the world.

Once where royalty entertained guests, this opulent table is now one of the longest in the world.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

Seventy-five miles of limestone caves host more than a million bottles of wine beneath a sleepy Moldovan town.

Historic cuisine meets fine dining in a hotel-restaurant overlooking Hyde Park.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.

The Arctic Circle runs through this isolated spot north of Iceland.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

A small cemetery remembers the British troops who fell during the Falklands War.

A hilltop collection of crosses remembering the hundreds of Argentine troops who fell during the Falklands War.

The southernmost Anglican cathedral in the world has whale bones standing in its yard.