A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

An unassuming, powerful monument north of the U.S. Capitol bears witness to the resilience of Japanese Americans during a time of grave injustice.

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

This isthmus in the Bahamas narrowly separates the roiling Atlantic from the cool Bight of Eleuthera.

The Avenue of Mausolea is a series of grand palatial tombs.

The haunting ruins of a military fortress turned astronomical observatory sit on a Sarajevo mountaintop.

The only parking meter in the entire town, it is surrounded by 100 free spaces.

The first island in the world designated a light-pollution-free astronomical observation point.

The ship built to ferry passengers and goods to the doomed Titanic is now the last remaining White Star Line vessel.

A monument to the 17,000 Chinese who worked and died to build Canada's Pacific Railway.

Inat Kuća, or "House of Spite," is more than just an oddly named restaurant.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."