A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

A man's head is enshrined beneath a statue near the first building constructed for the modern Olympic Games.

This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.

A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.

The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

The oldest cemetery of modern-day Athens blends the modern and ancient worlds.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

This local art collective supports contemporary artists through a coveted residency program.

The world’s largest permanent desert lake is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

Drink and dine in a coral cave that's at least 120,000 years old.

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.