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The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.

The oldest cemetery of modern-day Athens blends the modern and ancient worlds.

These ancient ruins hide in plain sight next to a dessert shop.

A tiny Greek Orthodox church from the Ottoman era hides on a busy city street.

The ruins of an ancient Roman tomb hidden in the basement of a trendy clothing store.

A road runs through the middle of this small Austrian chapel.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

Inside the corridors of this flea market, visitors are sure to find some obscure and odd treasures.

For decades, vendors have sold clothes once worn by American soldiers who stormed Italy in the 1940s.

This tile-work piece featuring a chicken riding in carriage is both a remarkable artistic creation and a social commentary of politics and culture in 17th-century Portugal.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

Legend says Dungeons and Dragons players can get their dice blessed at the creator of the game's memorial.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

Singapore's last surviving traditional village is hidden among giant skyscrapers and modern infrastructure.

A historical convent known for taking in bad luck babies left on its doorstep is now an upscale shopping center.

This "cursed house" features secret rooms, hidden vaults, and dark escape tunnels.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

A tiny microvalley etched into the side of Knocknarea Mountain hides another world.