A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

Offal and flawless onion soup are on the menu at this restaurant that once catered to the workers of Les Halles.

Visit a museum dedicated to the “the king of cheeses.”

Grab a life-changing ham sandwich at this former horse butchershop.

In 1977, an eccentric book lover formed a micronation for book lovers.

This mysterious church sits discreetly above the Aude countryside, right in the heart of "Grail Country."

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

Designed by famed 20th-century architect Cass Gilbert, the future of this abandoned 1908 rail station is currently in limbo.

Hundreds of caves once used to store grains and animal feed.

Traditional 11th-century outdoor tannery.

Morocco’s modern capital was once a haven for Barbary pirates, who went so far as to establish a republic of their own.

Visit a surreal landscape so otherworldly NASA actually used it to train the Apollo 17 crew.

An awe-inspiring mosque in Morocco with one of the tallest minarets in the world.

A mud brick kasbah with a history of lavishness and traitorship.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

The former home of Dutch anthropologist Bert Flint now houses a collection of Berber art and artifacts.

One of the two original gateways into the Kasbah, this gateway is a nesting site for storks.

This sanctuary is home to donkeys who finally get to rest after a life of toil.

A Moroccan getaway in the mountain range that plays the Himalayas' stunt double.

Exploring the wilder, more passionate sibling of Erg Chebbi feels like discovering a secret sun-kissed planet from another galaxy.