Hundreds of thousands of ancient documents offer a unique glimpse into Jewish life in Cairo.

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.

Complete town of 5,000 living out at sea on the world's first offshore oil platform.

Series of underground houses inhabited continuously for centuries.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

Antarctica's bustling metropolis, originally established by Richard E. Byrd.

Surat Thani's official flower—and the world's largest—smells of rotting meat.

Small Chinese fishing village impeccably maintained for visitors.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

These homes carved into the mountains seem to defy the laws of nature.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

Ottoman-era houses lovingly preserved.

Fascinating early attempt at a Jewish autonomous settlement.

Founded as a refugee camp, now a popular tourist spot.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

One of the most ethnically diverse spots on the planet.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.