Because sometimes you need to make a batch of frites even when the stores are all closed.

This uncanny fresco celebrating the "triumph of death" was split into four pieces to be moved to another museum.

Two of the few remaining life-sized Greek bronzes were submerged in the sea for over 2,000 years.

A stunning blue-green lake located in the Terskey Alatau mountain range.

This 13th century Orthodox monastery is built right into the Moldovan cliffside.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.

Once the hunting reserve of a noble family, this is one of the few remnants of Pleistocene planitial forest in northern Italy that still stands.

These tiny cabins on a cableway have been carrying visitors at a Baltic resort down to the beach since 1912.

Though an earthquake destroyed this village in 1980, one former resident still walks its streets every day.

This "railway" for boats continues a waterway over a road.

The seat of the Mantua bishop holds many secrets within its walls.

This chapel is the site of a yearly pilgrimage that originated during the Middle Ages.

Old neon signs from the City of Brotherly Love provide a snapshot of the city’s evolution.

This Roman underground canal was the longest tunnel ever built until the late 19th-century.

A former Canadian Pacific Railway station turned liquor store, the first and only station in Canada visited by British royalty.

In Lago Superiore, the largest expanse of lotus flowers outside of Asia is hard to miss.

A train ride to the middle of nowhere gives its passengers some of the most iconic views of Japan's seasons.

A floating bridge leaning on barges allows pedestrians to reach the historical center.

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

This long-abandoned village sits across a narrow gorge from a still-inhabited settlement that was once its twin.

An unremarkable wooden wheel built into the side of one of Rome's oldest hospitals was part of a policy to reduce infant exposure.

The charred, dead skeleton of an oak tree is said to have consoled a dying 16th-century Italian poet.

One of the world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridges.