Seville, Spain
Yemas de San Leandro
Hidden behind a wall, Spanish nuns distribute their signature sweets on a revolving tray.
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Seville, Spain
Hidden behind a wall, Spanish nuns distribute their signature sweets on a revolving tray.
Seydisfjordur, Iceland
An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.
New Orleans, Louisiana
If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?
New Orleans, Louisiana
The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.
New Orleans, Louisiana
In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.
New Orleans, Louisiana
By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.
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.
Istanbul, Turkey
A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.
Lviv, Ukraine
Ukraine's oldest operating pharmacy now offers guests a fascinating walk through apothecary history.
Prague, Czechia
The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.
Prague, Czechia
The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.
Athens, Greece
This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.
Bologna, Italy
Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.
Prague, Czechia
What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.
Dublin, Ireland
The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.
Ōmihachiman-shi, Japan
A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.
Larnaca, Cyprus
The water here is so clear you can see the mysteriously sunken ship from the surface.
Patan, India
This magnificent stepwell is designed as an inverted temple and adorned with 1,500 sculptures.
Finike, Cyprus
A crumbling ghost town with prime views of the dam that doomed it.
New York, New York
One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.
London, England
A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.
Korolyov, Russia
This iconic Russian space museum sits on a landmark space production facility and houses the Vostok 1, the first manned spacecraft, that was also built here.