Tokyo, Japan
Akihabara Electric Town
Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.
Places I've been
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Tokyo, Japan
Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.
Tokyo, Japan
Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.
Honolulu, Hawaii
The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Wall, South Dakota
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
Philip, South Dakota
A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.
Seattle, Washington
A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.
Berkeley, California
The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.
Oakland, California
International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.
Scottsboro, Alabama
One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.
Huntsville, Alabama
Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.
Sandia Park, New Mexico
"I did this all while you were watching TV."
Santa Fe, New Mexico
This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.
Taos, New Mexico
A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.
Shiprock, New Mexico
Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.
Dolores, Colorado
A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.
Brooklyn, New York
One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”
Morristown, New Jersey
A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.
Trenton, New Jersey
This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.
Hamilton Township, New Jersey
A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.