Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.

The hidden offices underneath Memorial Bridge have been locked up since 1976.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

The foundation of this ancient stupa dates back to the 1st-century.

Occupied for six centuries by Franciscan Order nuns, this monastery is an amazing ode to Catalán Gothic architecture.

This Buddhist monastery once housed an image of Buddha containing a 19-carat diamond.

For almost 100 years, this site of peace and spirituality has existed on the California coast.

This abandoned airplane hanger is said to have once been a top secret launch facility.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

This picturesque monastery at the base of a cliff is a peaceful oasis open to all visitors.

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

Camels and crocodiles share the black waters of this stunning Saharan oasis.

When struck, the strange stones in this park ring like bells.

A futuristic climate change study is nestled deep within this public land.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

Now abandoned, this stone church was part of the missionary efforts that initiated the Christianization of Zambia.

At this hillside site that was once home to a Mixtec community, you'll find ruins with a view.

This convent has a unique history, including being burned down by a friar trying to get rid of a few bats.

This vestige of Seychelles’s colonial past now resides in a busy intersection and didn’t chime for its first 96 years.

A schooner, nicknamed "The Unsinkable," with a long history of survival in the Indian Ocean.

In the middle of a busy residential neighborhood, a small roofless church being reclaimed by nature.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

These ruins of a Phoenician sanctuary in Sicily have a dark history.