An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.

This public pool is one of the last remaining lidos of the countless built in the 1930's as public works projects in the United Kingdom.

Anonymously sculpted and donated, these sculptures made from poetry books and pages are sprinkled around the city.

This alley off Edinburgh's Royal Mile contains remnants of the city's seedier history.

A beautifully designed asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center with a ghost story or two.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.

Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

One of the most easily accessible examples of the rare 1960s UFO houses.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.

On a small Slovenian island, diners can mix and match a classic cake into dozens of sweet and savory flavor combinations.

At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

The location of Puerto Rico's first water bottling plant, thanks to a collaboration between Mother Nature and technology.

This Scottish castle has witnessed clan rivalries, Jacobite uprisings, whisky smuggling, and more.

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

The largest catacomb system in the world.

The mass grave of the 27 victims of the "Vampire of Hanover."

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

This sweet Southern elixir comes from what may be the oldest grape vine in North America.