Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

An abandoned underground bathroom is now a space for public art.

This TV tower once secretly housed a GDR intelligence team.

Few people have ever heard of, let alone visited, one of Turkmenistan’s most impressive natural attractions.

Home to nearly a third of the world's mud volcanoes, Azerbaijan is home to a messy, bubbling, and sometimes explosive landscape.

This mysterious but iconic tapered tower appears in many Azeri fairytales and legends.

Mysterious hillside with a continuously burning natural fire.

What might be the largest completely Jewish town in the world outside of Israel now faces dwindling numbers and empty streets.

This odd museum/art gallery embraces the physiological, zoological, and ethnographic side of sex.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

One of three official copies of Marcel Duchamp's enigmatic masterpiece is on display in an obscure Tokyo museum.

No one is exactly sure why over a hundred lakes have formed amongst the tallest sand dunes on Earth.

A unique underground structure dating back to the 1st century BC.

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.