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An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

Off-limits and full of venomous pit vipers, Brazil’s Snake Island has a frighteningly apt nickname.

When this former hospital pharmacy closed in 2013 it already looked like a museum, so they turned it into one.

Dine on Porto-style tripe at a restaurant run by the head of a gastronomic brotherhood dedicated to uplifting this humble dish.

Picturesque intersection of witchcraft and ancient Christianity.

Entire apothecaries are on display at this Lisbon museum, which explores the history of medicine.

Feast on buckets of garlicky snails.

Taste the precursor of peri-peri chicken at this restaurant just outside of Lisbon.

Celebrated as a center of civilization, the remains of the ancient city have been nearly destroyed by greed, egoism, and war.

The sacred shrine of the Yazidis.

Remains of the old fortification along the Western border of the USSR, now an elaborate defense museum.

Nearly three decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, the hero of the USSR still stands over Belarus.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

This former outpost was designed to protect the lucrative fur trade of the 18th century.

A lasting testament to the Klondike Gold Rush.

A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.

Eat and drink at a pub older than the Magna Carta

Glasgow's oldest pub has a proud literary tradition and possibly a ghost or two.

Named for the Yoruba word for Lagos, this craft brewery draws on European beer-making and West African palm wine-fermenting techniques.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

The oldest surviving “eel, pie, and mash” shop in London is renowned for its infamous jellied eels.