Visitors can sit and study the board with this Estonian chess legend and International Grandmaster.

This Soviet-era "closed town" was a top secret uranium producer often left off of maps.

Tombstones buried in overgrown grass mark the deceased occupants of this abandoned graveyard.

Rusted cars, trucks, and buses form a fascinating collection of Soviet-era machinery.

This atmospheric spot in Pärnu's historic old town is located in a 17th-century almshouse.

The formerly unmarked grave of the noted Black American painter, who was a friend to James Baldwin.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

Four bald cypress trees in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, mark the southern edge of a 100,000 year old cypress swamp.

Once the largest attraction in Rhode Island, this former amusement park is now a gorgeous coastal state park.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.

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

Museum dedicated to "the man who moved the Earth."

A miniatures park with a model of Wolf's Lair as it looked during World War II.

The last king of Poland was interred in this church nearly 200 years after his death.

This now-defunct synthetic fuel plant was once a major cog in the Nazi war machine.

Once a giant gingerbread factory, this space now hosts exhibits and workshops on the historic treat.

Neighborhood in Jerusalem is home to the ultra-orthodox haredim.

This historic rec center in the heart of Israel is a bastion of peace and togetherness.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

This collection of reclaimed landmines acts as both an exhibition of their deadly history and as a shelter for children affected by them.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.