Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

One of the last remaining venues on the Old Chitlin’ Circuit is a kaleidoscopic music hall at the end of a dirt road.

“The Cajun Music Capital of the World” has kept things French in a Louisiana prairie town for over 75 years.

A Milwaukee museum provides an unsparing and ultimately empowering look at the Black American experience.

Scrap material from around Eritrea finds a new life at this outdoor market, where upcycling is a lifestyle.

A home base for Judy Chicago, one of America's leading radical feminist artists.

All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.

Taos Pueblo recipes, foraged ingredients, and outdoor ovens define the menu at this eatery.

New Zealand's only inland salt lake goes through a constant cycle of filling, evaporating, and refilling.

On East Burnside, a 24-hour vending machine distributes world-class pastries.

This small cemetery contains the graves of prisoners of war who were interred at Fort McClellan during World War II.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

This collection of vintage signs reflects the long and colorful history of this Arizona town.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

While filling up your gas tank in eastern Kentucky, you just might stumble into this collection of country music memorabilia.

This western-themed amusement park is host to a large number of decaying animatronic cowboys.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.