After a traumatic encounter with a six-foot eel, one Galway baker started making a daily loaf of sourdough in its shape.

A memorial to the United States's first wildlife refuge warden.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

The location of Puerto Rico's first water bottling plant, thanks to a collaboration between Mother Nature and technology.

Romans decided this 16th-century "talking statue" was so ugly, they named it after a primate.

Flowers have mysteriously appeared on her effigy every day for the last 150 years.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

Wander among the abandoned ruins of this once-powerful medieval town.

This Arctic mining town is home to a cat that's spent years masquerading as a fox.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.

At this sweet shop, the descendants of a royal chef serve up the fudge-like dessert his ancestor invented for a king.

You'll find the little birds tucked within the rocks of this Australian beach.

An impressive if morbid collection of mummified remains from different eras of the region's history.

A Swedish farm is the world's only producer of the rare, creamy delicacy that is moose cheese.

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.

Made from local Irish moss, this pie is served only in Prince Edward Island's potato museum.