Places blueheron28 Wants to Go

One Greenland town turned itself into an open air sculpture gallery with the help of a series of traditional stone artworks.

An experimental forest at the foreground of arboreal science is also the canary in the coal mine for climate change.

The 3.8 billion-year-old rock proves that tectonic plates may have been shifting longer than we thought.

Surprisingly delicious Asian-style hot dogs.

This iconic meat-and-three seasons every dish with ancestral cooking knowledge from South Carolina’s Lowcountry.

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

Established over a thousand years ago, this family-run teahouse continues to serve skewers of sweet rice cake to this day.

These turtle-shaped concrete stepping stones provide a unique river crossing in central Kyoto.

One of Kyoto's oldest food establishments has supplied soba noodles to temple priests and the Imperial Palace.

The only gallery in New York dedicated to olfactory art and the exploration of scent in art.

Slurp sesame noodles at the third-generation family-run establishment that invented them.

A stretch of the Iwai River that features beautiful rocky cliffs, rapids, and flying dango.

Mythical beasts symbolizing the city of Tokyo guard a historic bridge.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

This ambitious restaurant celebrates the culinary traditions of the Ozarks before 1870.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

The old castle kitchen where nucleic acid was first isolated is considered the "cradle of biochemistry."

The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.