The legendary luxury train passage is commemorated with a charming museum inside its former eastern terminus.

This museum was invented in a novel before being made real by the author.

This historic hotel preserves many treasures from its heyday hosting passengers on the Orient Express.

A tiny park in the middle of some big power politics.

A sixth-century Byzantine cistern hidden below a modern carpet store.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.

Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet your wish will be granted.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

An authentic replica of an Asian temple and garden hidden amongst the natural beauty of Hawai'i.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

The grand marquee of this abandoned Hawaiian theater remembers the building's elegant past.

The U.S. military dumped millions dollars worth of goods off a beach in Vanuatu, purely to spite the British and French.

Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

Doris Duke's lasting collection of Islamic Art, hidden in a Hawaiian paradise.