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This risky summer festival honors a historic volcanic eruption.

Summer in Scotland begins with a spectacularly wild and colorful event rooted in ancient pagan traditions.

Step past a rainbow of Oaxacan nightshades for a menu of regional moles worthy of weddings and funerals.

A mountain pass used by Prohibition-era bootleggers to facilitate traffic into and out of Canada from Vermont.

The railway carts travelers to central Athens's highest peak, which offers stunning vistas of the city.

Catch raucous live performances of traditional tunes at this old-school taverna.

This colorful, ornately-decorated cemetery sits next to a quiet cove known as "the beach of the dead."

A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

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

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

The largest prehistoric cemetery on the Balearic Islands dates back over 2,500 years.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

A stunning palace haunted by the sinister reputation of its infamous owners.

Coney Island’s last surviving haunted ride.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement served food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

Peruse produce from Senegal, Cameroon, and other West African nations at this sprawling market.

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

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