Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

A window into the luxurious lives led by the landed gentry of Minsk before the 1917 Revolution.

A beautiful and moving memorial set on a little island in the middle of the river in Minsk.

A unique park tells the geological history of Belarus in a national “map” of thousands of boulders and blue spruce.

This Minsk museum has cat coffee, cat chess, cat art, and even a cat "staff," which visitors are free to take home.

Take Soviet nostalgia to new heights by toasting the first man in space over a full spread of Belarusian and Soviet fare.

A small museum in this border city displays the contraband art that has been stolen back from smugglers.

Remnants of the city's Soviet history hover over this modern fast-food outlet.

The remains of Uruguayan hero José Artigas lie beneath a monument in Montevideo’s main square.

This historic fort overlooks Montevideo and appears on Uruguay’s coat of arms.

Abandoned bull fighting ring, slowly falling apart in Uruguay.

The design of the Palacio Salvo has been described as "a lighthouse on top of a building."

Because sometimes the most efficient route from A to B isn't a straight line.

The place of worship erected not once, but three times in one of the most desolate places on Earth.

One of America's oldest Antarctic research bases is abandoned but still just waiting for visiting explorers.

A remains of a stone shelter are a reminder of "The Worst Journey in the World."

An ice field known for harboring an infamous Martian meteorite turned out to contain the oldest air on Earth.

These abandoned huts still hold the remains of an early 20th century Australian researcher's work.

Antarctica's only sculpture garden, it has art and penguins, but no plants in sight.

The bodies of some early polar pioneers are still buried beneath the harsh snows of the Antarctic.

The birthplace of the very first human resident born in Antarctica.

A wooden hut from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

This abandoned Antarctic base sits nearly unchanged since it was forsaken in the 1950s, just waiting for you to visit.