One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

After giving up Michelin glamour for his Amish faith, one chef now makes stellar sausages in a small, off-the-grid shop.

A special train service transported Sydney's dead from this station to "Necropolis Receiving Houses" at Rookwood Cemetery.

The designer of this railway tunnel added a birthday present for himself.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

A small village in two different countries.

This tiny business claims to be "the smallest pub on the planet."

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

The town of Argleton has a postal code and appears on maps and even real estate listings, yet it does not exist.

The rogue roots are gradually consuming some of the historic marble grave markers.

This mysterious underground cave in Shropshire dates back to the 18th or 19th century.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

A piece of India inside a piece of Bangladesh inside a piece of India inside a piece of Bangladesh.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

This odd museum/art gallery embraces the physiological, zoological, and ethnographic side of sex.

A monument to the British doctor who connected mosquitoes to malaria.

These 40,000-year-old stenciled hands are older than the famous cave art in France and Spain.

A hub of information on tropical diseases and their treatments.

This rare basalt crater lake is used to study the Moon and Mars.

The painted and decorated towers of this Hindu shrine were once the tallest structures in one of the oldest cities in India.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.