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An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

This pub built its reputation pouring post-shift pints for employees of the cemetery with which it shares a wall.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

This bar is home to what's likely the oldest living jazz band in the world.

Famed for its pie, this eatery has a hidden tunnel that allowed Catholics to secretly walk to church during the Reformation.

This remote desert watering hole has a connection to a curious chapter of American history.

A mapping error in the 19th century made loggers think this section of the forest was underwater.

Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

A garment factory hides a small Dominican eatery in the hallway to its freight elevator.

The building features one of the last remaining free-floating spiral grand staircases in the U.S.

This castle has links to Portugal’s founding and struggles for independence.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

Kyiv's answer to Muscle Beach is a Soviet-era gym made from scrap metal.

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

In Spain, the ruins of a Roman military camp sit along a flooded section of a river.

This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.

The U.K.'s first underground railway line is now a lively thoroughfare for runners and cyclists.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

A palace-fortress ruin in Indonesia complete with legends of two magical tigers, eight bathing angels, and a wish-granting cannon.

This historic graveyard was partially paved over to create a streetcar line.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.