Certain traditions prevail on the least-visited island of the Aran Islands.

The Battle of Atlanta in 360 degrees, featuring a corpse that bears a striking resemblance to Clark Gable.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

1513 Turkish world map, full of European state secrets and snarky commentary.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

This restaurant was removed from the famed sister ship of the Titanic and placed within a hotel.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

An early 20th-century sanatorium, long abandoned and now being reclaimed by nature.

The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.

An abandoned swimming pool decays on the outskirts of Berlin.

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

This is why we can't have nice things on the Incan Trail.

It took 82 years and four different plaques to finally get the story right.

A backdoor to Machu Picchu that only the most foolhardy infiltrator would attempt to breach.

If you’ve ever seen a picture of Machu Picchu, then you’ve seen a picture of Huayna Picchu—you just didn’t realize it.