At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years.

Vibrant street art created with mixed media.

Modest by day, illuminated majestically at sunset.

This church carved into the rocks is full of enchanting stone statues.

A surreal botanical garden with an even more surreal tour guide.

A mysterious ancient elephant said to possess magic powers is now the symbol of a Sicilian city.

Many famous English poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning are laid to rest at this Swiss-owned cemetery in Florence.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

Standing atop 2nd-century Roman ruins, this church is one of the oldest and most iconic in Old Cairo.

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

The massive cave church of Cairo's Zabbaleen community is one of the largest Christian churches in the Middle East.

Come for the chanting, stay for the monastical vegan buffet.

Monumental sculptures guard many of the graves, transforming this necropolis into an open-air fine art museum.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Southeast Asia is a monument to a disappearing community.

Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.