A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

Catholics make up 84% of Ireland's population but this Dublin museum remembers the small but important Jewish community.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

A unique park tells the geological history of Belarus in a national “map” of thousands of boulders and blue spruce.

A striking Soviet memorial commemorates the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis.

A beautiful and moving memorial set on a little island in the middle of the river in Minsk.

Remains of the old fortification along the Western border of the USSR, now an elaborate defense museum.

The apartment building where JFK's assassin lived after defecting to the Soviet Union.

Glowing orb in Minsk houses 8,600,000 items.

The unsettling remnants of a torn down movie set lies nearby the ruined location of the actual Płaszów Labor Camp.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

This extensive collection covers thousands of years of Polish military history.

Hundreds of notes give thanks to the patron saint of lost causes.

People in Poland have rallied to save this unnatural desert from being reclaimed by the forest.

An open-air museum of 18th-century homes and churches transported from various villages in Southern Poland.

A tree planted by Marie Curie is treasured by the Radium institute that she set up.

A delightful museum entirely dedicated to the tiny homes of dolls.