Miami, Florida
The Vagabond Hotel
This post-war motel embodies a little-known, Miami-born architectural style.
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Miami, Florida
This post-war motel embodies a little-known, Miami-born architectural style.
Baywood-Los Osos, California
Home to a forest of whimsical pygmy Coast live oak.
Denver, Colorado
A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.
London, England
This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era “champions.”
Sheffield, England
Amidst towering office buildings, a local pub lives inside Sheffield’s oldest surviving domestic building.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.
Ballymoney, Northern Ireland
The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.
Meath, Ireland
An ancient neolithic tomb that only sees the sun twice a year.
Dowth, Ireland
The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.
Field, British Columbia
In 1909, the steepest and most difficult piece of track on the Canadian Pacific Railway was replaced with a series of spiralling tunnels cut into the mountains.
Seattle, Washington
The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.
Seattle, Washington
A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.
Boston, Massachusetts
One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.
Lisbon, Portugal
The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.
Aberystwyth, Wales
Welsh literary history is preserved in the delicate pages of these medieval manuscripts.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.
Alajuela, Costa Rica
Where dogs like the rare "Fire-Tailed Border Cocker" run free on the mountainside.
Portland, Oregon
Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.
Duiwelskloof, South Africa
A South African bar inside a hollowed out 6,000-year-old Baobab.
Preston, England
Everyone's favorite clay duo immortalized in bronze.
Nuremberg, Germany
The final resting place of one of Germany's most accomplished Renaissance men.
Kanazawa, Japan
Although it has never been a secret ninja base, this shrine still has plenty of tricks up its sleeve.
Wilton, New York
This picturesque cottage was the site of Ulysses S. Grant’s final and perhaps most important campaign.