Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

These small stands sell Malian snacks to worshippers and passersby after Friday prayers in Harlem.

This painted marvel is San Francisco's 400-foot ode to urban biking.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

Take in a rare, face-to-face glimpse of Lady Liberty at this tucked away Red Hook park.

Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

Concentrated around the Dead Sea, these surprising canyons are filled with coursing water, fish, and even crabs.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Some of the best Persian food in New York comes from the front window of an unassuming pizza shop.

These sub-farmland caves are home to a majestic stalactite known as the "Crystal King."

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

Monumental sculptures of Patrick Amiot, constructed from debris, detritus, and determination.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."