The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.

One of the most valuable palace-garden complexes in the eastern borderlands—and one of the most haunted.

A Kyiv-based repository for all manners of discarded curiosities.

One of the largest museums in Ukraine remembers the story of the German-Soviet War in iconic, brutalist style.

Welcome to the world's only museum dedicated to the Ukranian Easter egg.

World's largest crossword puzzle spans the side of a towerblock, its clues scattered throughout the city.

A reconstructed medieval gateway that was the magnificent entrance to the capital city dating back to 1037.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This serene bamboo walkway allows Buddhist monks from remote temples access to the nearby village.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

Buddhist university that allows English-language speakers the opportunity to study with monks in Thailand.

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

The much-beloved mascot of a local museum.

This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

Elaborate mansions built by Roma residents in Soroca to show their success after centuries of discrimination.

This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.