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This roadside wonder is as mysterious as it is beloved.

More than a century old, this cast iron bridge on the Balmoral Estate leads to nowhere.

A remnant of the 19th-century dream to discourage people from drinking booze by offering them water.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

Artifacts fill the old headquarters of the hugely influential political movement to ban alcohol in the United States.

Performers, intricate sets, and a real speakeasy tell the story of the 18th Amendment.

Ado Awaye Mountain and the unique lake that sits near its peak are shrouded in ancient legends.

This supermarket offers shoppers a window into the past alongside their groceries.

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

The frozen treats at this Cape Town parlor are inspired by Africa's food cultures.

This strange sculpture depicts a giant nightmare hare crushing a man to death beneath its colossal bulk.

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

For just a few hours each morning, this market serves specialties from the city's shrinking Chinese-Indian community.

A Buddhist temple covered in intricate designs and carvings made out of seashells and pieces of coral.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

This stunning iron gate designed by Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí is filled with mythic symbolism.

This unusual structure may be on its way to becoming a cultural landmark in Toronto.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

An abandoned fish-shaped drive-in gets a second life as a restaurant.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

Order “Proletariat’s Cutlet” at this communist-themed restaurant allegedly once visited by Lenin.

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