Key West, Florida
Captain Tony's Saloon
Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.
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Key West, Florida
Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.
Rome, Italy
Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.
Iceland
A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.
Montreal, Québec
A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.
Naftah, Tunisia
Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.
Heraklion, Greece
This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.
Aix-en-Provence, France
Balconies that have a most unusual accent.
Guernsey
Underground hospital complex constructed by slave laborers during the German occupation of the Channel Islands.
Prague, Czechia
A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.
Prague, Czechia
A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.
Selçuk, Turkey
The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.
Grindavík, Iceland
Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant
Kuching, Malaysia
The oldest museum in Borneo is a cornucopia of rare taxidermy and human skulls.
Berlin, Germany
The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".
Istanbul, Turkey
A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.
Solitaire, Namibia
In Namibia there is an installation that explores the intertwined linguistics and existential beliefs of an imaginary community.
Borgo a Mozzano, Italy
A stunning bridge that appears as if it's lunging to the shore, and has a legend of a devilish architect.
Iceland
A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.
New Orleans, Louisiana
According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
Munich, Germany
Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.
Pozzuoli, Italy
A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.
Namibia
A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.
Batu Caves, Malaysia
Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.