A Portuguese Jewish cemetery filled with stunning grave monuments that date back to 1614.

A poignant museum dedicated to the history of the Dutch resistance against Nazi occupation

Famed for its pie, this eatery has a hidden tunnel that allowed Catholics to secretly walk to church during the Reformation.

One of the world’s leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust, the Nazi era, and genocide, this collection includes published and unpublished works, press cuttings, photographs, and eyewitness testimony.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Neighborhood in Jerusalem is home to the ultra-orthodox haredim.

You can row a boat through this ancient underground reservoir.

Thousands of slain Soviet soldiers are buried within the shadow of this enormous obelisk.

This historic cemetery was inaccessible for several years due to dozens of land mines.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

A narrow strip of land is home to the tallest migrating dunes in Europe.

Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.

An abandoned amusement park turned street art gallery with open walls for visitors to spray paint.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

On the shores of Lake Superior, a small group of monks makes sacred sweets.

Ruins of a 13th-century fortress perched above a breathtaking Mediterranean bay.

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

China’s breathtaking futuristic library is lined floor to ceiling with fake books.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.