This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

A 1000-year-old shrine in Kyoto with a poorly planned sacred arch.

The groundbreaking Japanese shrine maiden who invented the art of kabuki.

View Japan's most historic city from a cyberpunk walkway suspended 150 feet above the ground.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

This rusted car found in Petrified Forest National Park's Route 66 exhibit may be the most photographed abandoned car in the country.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

An improbable set of attractive limestone caverns forms the centerpiece of Providence Mountains State Recreation Area, in the heart of the Mojave Desert.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

Striking, enormous gold-plated sculpture of Buddha installed in the 19th century.

One of Ayutthaya’s most iconic locations is a mysterious, hauntingly surreal miracle.

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

The design of this beautifully crafted building was inspired by Norwegian glaciers.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

This blowhole is supposedly caused by a trapped monster.