In northeastern Poland, the ruins of a massive granary overlook the Narew River.

A quaint amusement park now sits, rusting and forgotten among the foliage.

An eatery within the Minneapolis American Indian Center writes colonial ingredients out of the story of Native American cuisine.

This museum explores the tumultuous history of Lviv under Nazi and Soviet occupation.

A schoolhouse and chapel are all that remains of this alpine village.

In a quiet residential neighborhood, one restaurant fights to preserve heirloom corn, one tortilla at a time.

Exceptional Nepalese food can be found in a Texas gas station.

This old, abandoned hotel offers magnificent views.

This hilltop fort is a dark holdover from one of Latin America's bloodiest dictatorships.

This ancient burial site was once thought to be the home of a race distinctive to Ainu folklore.

This hidden fortress has been coined the "City of Ghosts."

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

In the middle of a barren moorland, the remnants of a lost British Space Age stand like a 20th-century Stonehenge.

This now-defunct synthetic fuel plant was once a major cog in the Nazi war machine.

This outcropping was once home to a medieval monastery destroyed during the Ottoman conquest.

Morocco’s modern capital was once a haven for Barbary pirates, who went so far as to establish a republic of their own.

This now-abandoned outcrop is an important Native American spiritual site, overtaken by European settlers and mining pollution.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

This mysterious and creepy location instills a strong sense of foreboding in all visitors.

This pre-Hispanic apartment complex also includes ancestral paintings that point to its military past.

Flip your own pancakes in this old sugar mill within a Florida state park.

In this beloved beach town, a secret seafood haven lies tucked behind a car wash.

This collection of ancient, mountaintop, underground tombs was once hidden by decades of bloodshed.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.