Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

Enormous crabs, bioluminescent jellies, and other amazing creatures from the ocean’s depths—some of which are in an aquarium for the first time ever.

The longest covered bridge west of the Mississippi River.

An enchanting tunnel of cypress trees leads to an old morse code station still used today.

One of the largest Buddhist communities in the West sits on the site of an old hospital.

A vaudeville performer mounted this hollowed-out redwood log onto the chassis of a truck, and toured the country spreading a message of conservation.

A simple plaque remembers a California island massacre that claimed more than 100 lives.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

A conservation sanctuary for rescued koalas, some of which were saved from devastating Australian bushfires.

A Roman holiday is closer than you think when you use this 1916 staircase inspired by Rome's Piazza di Spagna.

Where members of the Crossbow Corps of San Marino demonstrate their skills.

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

A puppeteer’s paradise offering shows, workshops, and an archive of over 2,000 puppets.

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

Surprisingly delicious Asian-style hot dogs.

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

From mining complex to industrial exhibition, this museum once played a major part in the X-Files.

Pause for an afternoon fika with sublime Scandinavian cakes and pastries.

The four tall pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Seattle church that fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.