The building of this town's first purpose-built cinema theater now houses a restaurant, but its walls still represent a distant heritage.

An abandoned 6th-century monastery features a medieval map of the known world.

Once a safe haven for locals engaged in blood feuds, this 400-year-old fortified tower is now a museum showing what life was like for those lying in wait within its walls.

A wonderous place devoted to art and metal.

A royal relic from the time that gambling was accidentally made legal in South Carolina.

Middle-earth in the middle of Switzerland.

This unassuming bookstore in the heart of Madrid is one of the oldest in Spain.

This mysterious tower is said to enshrine a dormant seven-headed serpent that once protected Vientiane from destruction.

A must for film lovers in Madrid and home to the Spanish Film Library's projection space.

An extensive network of secret tunnels was created for the Nazi project "Riese."

A cenote filled with Colonial era artifacts whose waters cannot be accessed.

One of the only remaining vestiges of baseball's Negro Leagues in Atlanta.

A Beaux-Arts architectural surprise and a charming nostalgic tour through northern Mexico’s railway revolution.

Below the altar in Saint-Willibrord Basilica rests the mortal remains of Luxembourg's patron saint.

One man's collection of found art, sculpture, and ephemera adorns his two side-by-side homes.

This statue in Plaza San Francisco commemorates a beloved figure from 1950s Havana.

This traditional Japanese shrine is dedicated to four Shinto deities.

The lasting remains of the region's once booming cement industry.

Abandoned station along an ancient pilgrimage route.

Tucked in Mumbai’s wealthiest neighborhood is one of the city’s oldest and most sacred sites: a temple complex believed to house the waters of the Ganges.

A Zoroastrian funerary tower where excarnation rituals are carried out is threatened by the area's dwindling vulture population.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

This ancient abandoned church in a remote part of Turkey is in danger of falling over.

Ottoman-era houses lovingly preserved.