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Seemingly unremarkable items like empty sushi trays, chef hats, and freshness stickers are being preserved so future generations can look back on this beloved cultural import.

A once-secret library of Freemason history in Catalonia.

This Navarrese cave's history of witchcraft and pagan ritual is not just embraced, but recreated each year.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

A sobering account of the vibrant multicultural neighborhood that was destroyed under apartheid.

Ukraine's oldest operating pharmacy now offers guests a fascinating walk through apothecary history.

The laboratory where the Soviet secret police invented exotic poisons used to kill dissidents in hideous and (mostly) untraceable ways.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

The last woman executed for witchcraft in Europe is remembered in this Swiss museum.

The infamous Boston Mob ran rackets from an office here in the 1970s.

Beneath the city of Lourdes, France is a massive, concrete church.

The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

This former fascist summer camp was abandoned for decades.

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

Formerly a brutal Nazi colony, this Chilean village was remade as a (controversial) German-themed tourist trap.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

Said to be one of Sweden's most haunted places, this vicarage once even attracted a ghost-busting priest.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

Housing the famous Norwegian ice-defying 19th century polar exploration ship.