Chattanooga, Tennessee
The Reading Room
The shelves at this Chattanooga bar are stocked with used books, and buying one sends money back to the library.
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Chattanooga, Tennessee
The shelves at this Chattanooga bar are stocked with used books, and buying one sends money back to the library.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Not your average Bosnian cafe — this locale is dedicated to the former Yugoslav dictator Tito.
Prague, Czechia
You can soak in private hot tubs infused with beer while pouring unlimited Czech beer from your own tap.
Peach Springs, Arizona
The only place in the Grand Canyon where an automobile can be driven to the Colorado River
Mesquite, Nevada
The junction point of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, resurveyed and remonumented in 2016
Somerville, Massachusetts
Tucked away on Somerville Avenue is a curated mycological gallery.
New York, New York
The Pickle Guys stand as a salt-stained holdout of the Lower East Side’s historic pushcart culture.
San Diego, California
The Kansas City Barbecue restaurant also contains the original piano that was a central part of the famous "Great Balls of Fire" scene.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This mechanical marvel is a 24-hour cheese vending machine, holding freshly made cheeses from the internationally acclaimed Perrystead Dairy.
Mexico City, Mexico
The richest man in Mexico built the largest aquarium in Latin America 26 meters underground
Berlin, Germany
The spiciest place in town - where one can and may cry
Upton, England
This traditionally British fish and chip shop is one of the few that still cooks its products in a coal-fired range.
Hood River, Oregon
Where hand-pressed burgers meet low-flying planes — a 1950s drive-in shack at the end of an active runway in the Columbia River Gorge, with Mount Hood on one side and Mount Adams on the other.
Orange, New Jersey
This is the location of the U.S. Radium Corporation where the “Radium Girls” worked, became sickened by radiation poisoning, with many dying horrible deaths.
San Diego, California
Listen to the sounds of the Earth moving along the Rose Canyon Fault.
Huntingburg, Indiana
A historic small-town ballpark that became the on-screen home of the Rockford Peaches in “A League of Their Own.”
Valentine, Texas
An old adobe structure first built in the 1890s is a desert watering hole plastered with dollar bills and odd West Texas finds.
San Bruno, California
This place claims to be North America’s first vegan convenience store.
Kyoto, Japan
The home of Mario and his friends
Manteo, North Carolina
Home to the first child born to English colonists in North America, this colony mysteriously disappeared while waiting for supplies.
Ireland
One of Ireland’s oldest family-run pubs, with a unique feature.
South Hero, Vermont
This rail trail culminates in a three-mile land bridge only accessible to cyclists and pedestrians.
Freeport, Maine
Suspended from this brewery’s tasting room ceiling is a full-sized fin whale skeleton.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
These 11,000-year-old mounds may be the oldest known human-made structures in the Americas.