Marrakesh, Morocco
Almoravid Koubba
The oldest monument in Marrakesh and the city's only surviving example of Almoravid architecture.
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Marrakesh, Morocco
The oldest monument in Marrakesh and the city's only surviving example of Almoravid architecture.
Matera, Italy
People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.
Chartres, France
The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.
Conques, France
The huge golden reliquary of a testicle-smashing saint.
Palenque, Mexico
An elaborate Mayan city shrouded in alien conspiracy revealed the tomb of Pacal the Great.
Lalibela, Ethiopia
An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.
Sana'a, Yemen
Yemen's "Stone Palace" looks like it was carved right out of the tall stone column on which it is built.
Nîmes, France
The lost Latin words were reconstructed using the holes from the nails that once pinned them in place.
Setenil de las Bodegas, Spain
A Spanish town built into the cliffs.
Figueres, Spain
This overlooked museum houses an amazing collection of rare, antique typewriters.
Barcelona, Spain
A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.
Barcelona, Spain
This Funeral Hearse Museum represents the finest in cadaver transportation.
Phonsavan, Laos
Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.
Potosi, Bolivia
Mountain of unimaginable riches that bankrolled the Spanish Empire, complete with its own underworld god.
Santos, Brazil
This majestic building, where Brazil's coffee brokers once bought and sold beans, now houses a coffee museum.
Højbjerg, Denmark
Preserved "bog person" that is over 2,000 years old.
Dresden, Germany
When the rain falls, this drain system turns into a musical instrument.
Potsdam, Germany
Solar observatory doubles as a daring display of Expressionist architecture, much to Einstein's chagrin.
Berlin, Germany
The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.
Springfield, Illinois
When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.
Brazil
Site full of incredible prehistoric paintings and archeological findings.
Moscow, Russia
This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.
Neustadt, Germany
The natural mummy of the less than chivalrous Knight Kahlbutz.
Berlin, Germany
A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.