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The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This small cafe aims to empower acid attack victims and stop violence against women in India.

A relic from a forgotten bakery chain still spins atop a diner.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

For a buck, students can snag freshly picked apples grown in the university orchards.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

A memorial in coal country commemorates the victims of an all-too-preventable mining disaster.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Lithuania's outdoor sculpture trail of wooden folk art.

A unique waterfall that some believe attracts the fairfolk.

What is left of the pillar of Saint Simeon, the voluntary martyr who climbed the column to give his sermons, remaining perched there for thirty-seven years.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

The depictions of slaughter are surprisingly detailed at this mysterious ancient site.

This impressive collection of rare books on ancient mysticism inspired author Dan Brown.