This museum is dedicated solely to this millennia-old handheld cooling device.

A plaque marks the underground site of one of London's "lost rivers."

At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

Classic game cookery takes center stage at what's widely considered London's oldest restaurant.

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A Japanese colonial-era hot springs hotel that has transformed into an art museum.

You can still see the remains of a sacred 3,000-year-old cypress.

A museum about rituals, ghosts, and demons from around Asia, set in the middle of the peaceful Jiufen.

A monument to placate the spirits of an ancient forest.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

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

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

One man’s passion for gas stations is on display along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.