Grab a life-changing ham sandwich at this former horse butchershop.

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

Travel back in time at a Moroccan-inspired restaurant that was the height of glamor in the 1970s.

Fully loaded, Tunisian-style sandwiches are on the menu at this unassuming hole-in-the-wall.

Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

This Algerian sweet shop serves confections in an eye-popping array of hues.

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

Unusual rock formations eroded into a landscape of stone beasts.

A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

A salty red wasteland in Tanzania is a breeding spot for endangered flamingos.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.

A large measuring stick marks the lowest point of a country that is partially under sea level.

This risqué sculpture, based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, caused outrage 35 years after it was erected.

The second-longest continuous wall on the planet protects a hidden secret in the deserts of India.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

Small caves once used as a hiding place for some of those accused during the Salem Witch Trials.

Gladiators battle and chariots race daily in the ruins of a once-great Roman city.