A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.

The final resting place of infamous outlaw Clyde and Marvin Barrow.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

An abandoned Soviet-era mining town in the mountains of South Kazakhstan.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

A 20th-century picture show in 3-D.

After the famous composer died in Paris, his sister snuck his heart out of the country to honor his wish that it be buried in their native country.

Gladiators battle and chariots race daily in the ruins of a once-great Roman city.

A 2,000-year-old wine press hidden in an overlooked park in Tel Aviv.

Hidden out of public view in the National Library of Israel is a collection of "Stalag's," 1960s Nazi themed porno paperbacks written and consumed by Israelis.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

This family tattoo parlor has been inking religious pilgrims in the Middle East for 700 years.

A serene desert oasis speckled with ancient artifacts.

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Sunset Park's Guatemalan community knows to head to the back of this bodega for a taste of home.

An everyday Jackson Heights bodega conceals a Mexican seafood paradise.

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.