A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

The last permanent exhibit dedicated to the Soviet leader.

The morbid items in this small and hidden museum are not for the weak stomached.

A meandering boardwalk across the bogland leads to a "stairway to heaven" with sublime views.

In an isolated field near a dilapidated barn stands this chilling portrayal of the plight of the Nuba peoples of Sudan.

In California, colorful roadside signs remind us all that love transcends borders.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

The vibrant buildings in the “capital of the comic strip” celebrate the art form that made it famous.

The remnants of a depressing public toilet are now a hub of ever evolving street art.

An abandoned horror film set sits eerily along a highway through Hollywood's "door to the desert."

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

Carvings in Turkey's Marble Road may have directed ancient Romans to a hidden brothel.

The remains of what was, not so long ago, the world's largest city.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

An elaborate Mayan city shrouded in alien conspiracy revealed the tomb of Pacal the Great.

Mysterious lost empire of the Silk Road.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

One of the world’s smallest bars, just 13 square feet, is brimming with speakeasy flair.

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.