The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

Please don’t anchor your boat onto the Department of Defense’s underwater data cables.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

An exquisite and eclectic selection of African masks stands out within a massive woodcarving marketplace.

China’s breathtaking futuristic library is lined floor to ceiling with fake books.

The Indian capital of black magic and witchcraft.

A stretch of land where the sour-sweet vegetable is cloaked in darkness and grows so fast you can hear it crack, squeak, and pop.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

These massive moving sand dunes have swallowed an entire village and are still on the run.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

This 2,700-year-old woman is the jewel of the Maidstone Museum's Egyptian collection.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

Hidden among popular Sydney golf courses is a little remembered graveyard populated by smallpox victims.

Over two million dolls have been healed during this hospital's century in business.

A sparkling sandstone cliffside that's worth a visit while it still exists.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

Entrance to a famous orchard with nine types of apples.

At five meters long, that is one big piece of foam poop.