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The world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcano.

It might not be as impossible to reach as its name would imply, but just about.

Napoleon’s home in exile, decorated with poisonous wallpaper.

Remote, volcanic island that Darwin, Hooker, and the Royal Navy shaped into a thriving, artificial ecosystem.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

New York's oldest magic store.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

This abandoned secret city is a crumbling wonderland of Soviet ruins.

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.

The largest wine cellar in the world is a 150-mile network of underground caves near the capital of Moldova.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

The largest catacomb system in the world.

This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.

An isolated village literally built into the crevices and rock formations of a mountain.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.