A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

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

A spectacular rainbow of stained glass makes the "Pink Mosque" one of the most beautiful in Iran.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

A subtle memorial marks where a human chain protested Soviet control in 1989.

A haunted outpost in Moldova, where guards are said to have fired at a ghostly figure.

At less than four inches in height, this iconic fictional character is the smallest public statue in all of Moldova.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

A gorgeous gem on the ocean.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

A unique collection of Soviet military artifacts lies hidden away in a disused train, in the unrecognized Eastern European republic of Transnistria.

Seventy-five miles of limestone caves host more than a million bottles of wine beneath a sleepy Moldovan town.

When the USA donated cement and funds to expand the airport in Laos, the Laotians built a massive monument instead.

Featured in one of the most iconic scenes in cinema history.

This 17th-century structure is a beautiful testimony to traditional Persian architecture

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

With only one flight in and out a week, the unfenced runway at this small island's airport transforms into a seaside park for locals and visitors.

The mummified remains of Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Russia's most important Buddhist.

This massive complex is made up of hundreds of smaller temples that date back to the ninth century.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.