This former papal residence was the site of an infamous incident known as the “slap of Anagni.”

The former home of the world-famous Templeton Carpet Factory.

This once-majestic, now-abandoned Victorian castle has seen better days.

A schoolhouse and chapel are all that remains of this alpine village.

A fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.

Also known as Napoleon's Canal, this waterway was created on the orders of the general, and construction was interrupted by Waterloo.

This small museum is dedicated to the history of Havana and Florida's once-booming tobacco industry.

The Kaveri River cuts through the rocky terrain then drops off to form these misty falls.

Housed in an old British jail, this spot serves up Georgian, Russian, and Ukrainian specialities with a side of Turkish history.

The city of Parma's cathedral is home to one of the greatest illusionistic frescoes of the Renaissance.

The world's first combination ski slope and power plant.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

This conservation area filled with colorful birds is the last community forest within the city of Kathmandu.

The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.

This window celebrates the role of tea, coffee, cocoa, and cotton in creating the fortune of the man who commissioned it.

This astronomical clock is the second oldest in England.

Exceptional Nepalese food can be found in a Texas gas station.

This Kathmandu museum, built in an Austrian modernist style, looks like a set from Star Wars.

The easternmost town in Alaska can only be accessed from Canada.

This house is one of the most colorful in the country, and is the last remaining example of a historic villa.

At this monastery, monks make raw-milk cheese and use excess whey to create methane that powers their hot-water system.

A functioning Roman-era aqueduct and bridge in rural southwest France.

The tallest waterfall in the Judean Desert is named for its connection to a biblical figure.

Come for the Italian food, stay for the taxidermy and giant statues.