Groups of prehistoric tombs that dot the mountains of northern Oman.

Take the most scenic fjord landscape in Norway and add dramatic red cliffs, warm clear water, and playful dolphins.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

An oddity shop inspired by the history of the circus.

Once frequented by heavyweights of the Russian arts scene, this café is stuck in the 1800s.

Slather on the history at an exhibition dedicated to this Russian luxury.

A tea party concludes each visit to this Russian spice cookie sanctum.

The past, present, and future of Russia's signature alcohol is remembered in the world's only museum dedicated to the starchy spirit.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

The birthplace of both the Atomic Age and Godzilla, and the namesake of the bathing suit.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate.