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

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

Along the most northwestern point in Africa is an ancient cave surrounded by legends.

At this faithfully preserved medina off the Moroccan tourist circuit you can walk through six centuries of history in one day.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.

A huge communist-era propaganda monument and mural that offers stunning views of the Mongolian capital.

The oldest Buddhist monastery in Mongolia has survived centuries of invasions, political shifts, and religious purges.

A monument to the defenders of the Arctic in Murmansk, Russia.

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

The highest peak in Utah is the hardest to reach, but only if explorers choose the hard way.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.

A Cold War command center is hidden under an idyllic countryside.

An astounding collection of taxidermy, fossils, skeletons, and even a few strange live beasts.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

A memorial to the thousands of Turkmen soldiers and civilians who died in a bloody 1881 battle.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

The world's largest drain sits below the city of Kasukabe, Japan.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.