Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

These numerous Israeli caves were dug out over hundreds years for reasons ranging from hideouts to burial sites.

You can row a boat through this ancient underground reservoir.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

An ancient quarry rediscovered by a dog and claimed by biblical kings, a German cult, and the Freemasons.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

Once frequented by heavyweights of the Russian arts scene, this café is stuck in the 1800s.

Church built on the site where the last tsar of Russia and his family were killed.

The USSR’s Conquest of Nature lead to the domestication of many moose—no squirrel.

This collection of 80 polarizing foods aims to challenge your subjective notions of repulsion.

Crooked windswept pines give this old forest an enchanted and magical look.

Dine on food tied to Viking history and legend at this subterranean Stockholm spot.

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

Experiencing Guatemala's sensory-exploding church is a blunt reminder of European influence.