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Eat your way from Ghana to Myanmar on this globe-trotting menu.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

A massive forgotten storehouse from 1913 on the Brooklyn Waterfront has a spectacular view of Brooklyn.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

Mysterious ancient petroglyphs carved on a glacial boulder at the tip of Bainbridge Island.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

A former Catholic seminary, now a Washington State Park, preserves undeveloped lands on Lake Washington and also hosts a luxury hotel.

A lush Seattle garden designed by the same landscape architects responsible for New York's Central Park.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

This quiet neighborhood is also home to a 700-ton rock transported by the last Ice Age.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

A hidden gem full of oddities, curiosities and macabre antiques.

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

Underneath the historic center of Mexico City, the remains of a temple dedicated to the Aztec god of the wind.

Psychedelic murals coat the inside of a nondescript research library.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.