For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.

The traditional houses along the coast of this charming Japanese fishing village allow people to sleep above the sea.

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

The colorful soil of Iran’s "Rainbow Island" attracts artists and nature lovers.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

In the shadow of a former battleground, the resting place for nearly 2,000 soldiers who died in World War I.

In an area where the remnants of WWI are discovered on a regular basis this preserved frontline trench may be the most amazing.

The site where one of the most famous poems of World War I was composed is preserved to honor the legacy of the work.

A rare example of this century-old British tank stands near the center of town in Ashford.

This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.

During World War II the Thorp building was guarded by the OSS, FBI, and US Navy because of the top-secret bombsight being produced there.

One of the oldest continuously-operated gay bars in the United States is allegedly haunted by Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

Site of one of World War I's most horrific scenes.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

A strangely forgotten claimant to the much contested title of "Source of the Nile."

The burial ground of four Buganda monarchs was nearly destroyed by a devastating fire.

This small roadside eatery exists in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, as the equator runs right through it.

This door in the old residential area of Guadalajara hides several communist motifs.

Storied crypts fill the most famous cemetery in Colombia.