According to one local legend, this image was created during a battle between a wild lioness and the archangel Michael.

The oldest surviving stele in Japan is a personal dedication from a monk to his late mother.

At this 16th-century monastery in rural Bulgaria, visitors can also spend the night.

Built around 1723, this is the oldest surviving home in the U.S.'s oldest colonial city.

The lone remnant of a 16th-century palace in Old Goa.

This Cold War–era fallout shelter was actually a storage facility for the nation's emergency currency.

A purr-fectly spirited bronze celebration of local street felines through history.

Sunset Park's Guatemalan community knows to head to the back of this bodega for a taste of home.

Mansion and shopping center used in the 1975 film "The Stepford Wives."

Journey through vintage Americana inside this small Massachusetts shop.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

This stunning waterfall is the backdrop to a site that has seen continuous human habitation for 250,000 years.

It takes a nine-mile hike to reach these hot springs, but weary hikers are rewarded with stunning views and a warm soak.

Metal dinosaurs lurk in a sculpture garden on the outskirts of a popular resort town.

A Victorian marvel of engineering is now a 21st-century tourist attraction.

Chilly air billows out from the entrance of an abandoned mine on a steep hillside, providing a refuge for Ice Age fauna and flora.

A gorgeous, Gaudí-esque stairway constructed in the city of Istanbul by a prominent Jewish family.

Part of a WWII submarine is lurking outside the Washington Navy Yard parking lot.

Home to over 300 antique cars and motorcycles, including Thomas Edison's Model A.

A stunning blue-green lake located in the Terskey Alatau mountain range.

The ruins of a 2,000-year-old Roman fishing village perched on one of the best beaches in Spain.

The symbolic center of Ireland, this summit also offers panoramic views of the countryside.

Georgia's answer to Easter Island immortalizes the nation's great poets, artists, and leaders in stone glory.