Niigata, Japan
Niigata Rice Cracker Museum & Bakauke Inari
This snack factory boasts several tributes to its popular line of rice crackers, including a quasi-shrine.
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Niigata, Japan
This snack factory boasts several tributes to its popular line of rice crackers, including a quasi-shrine.
Portland, Oregon
This café is dedicated to serving coffee roasted by Native American-owned companies.
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.
New Braunfels, Texas
Texas's oldest bakery serves authentic German pastries, including legendary strudel.
Berlin, Germany
Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.
Seoul, South Korea
Some of the freshest vegetables in Seoul are grown in a subway station.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.
Norwich, England
This medieval castle is filled with an eccentric collection that ranges from ancient Egyptian artifacts to taxidermy to a mummified hand that was cut off during a duel.
Kutztown, Pennsylvania
A park in a small Pennsylvania town is home to an original sculpture by one of its native sons, legendary artist and activist Keith Haring.
Córdoba, Spain
This Michelin-starred restaurant sheds light on a rare period of cultural and culinary tolerance in Cordoba’s past.
Tokyo, Japan
This monument gives insight into how lost children were found in Edo-period Tokyo.
Saint-Just-d'Ardèche, France
This massive and eclectic collection is filled with thousands of sculptures, masks, and assemblages.
London, England
This Art Deco house is home to the world's largest collection of Dora Gordine's paintings, drawings, and sculptures.
Casa Grande, Arizona
This collection of vintage signs reflects the long and colorful history of this Arizona town.
Cuevas, Spain
A road that winds through this natural cave is the only way to access the small, appropriately-named village of Cuevas.
Harbor Beach, Michigan
An easy-to-reach, century-old shipwreck in shallow and crystal clear waters.
Washington, D.C.
The former home of Lillian Evans Tibbs and her grandson, Thurlow Evans Tibbs Jr., whose prodigious contributions to music and art spanned more than 90 years.
Tokyo, Japan
A hole-in-the-wall antiquities museum in one of Tokyo's most popular megamalls.
Cadereyta de Montes, Mexico
An alluring, arid botanical garden home to a bewildering variety of cacti both endangered and common.
Woodstock, Illinois
This small-town opera house has appeared much more in national culture and history than its charming setting might suggest.
Clarksburg, Maryland
This suburban park recalls the history of a famous tavern. Despite the name, it's no ordinary place!
Kearney, Nebraska
Inside this magical collection, you can buy recipes cooked up by church ladies, motorcycle clubs, and clowns.
Colares, Portugal
One Portuguese poet described this cape, the westernmost point in mainland Europe, as "where the land ends and the sea begins."
Landshut, Germany
This impressive castle looms over small German town.