Step back in time at this 19th-century kiosk.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

This "City of Books" holds a museum, library, and the complete personal book collections of five of Mexico's greatest thinkers.

Visiting this cacophonous collection of vintage novelties is like stepping into the mind of a crazed toymaker.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

This was once the home of Gahan's Saloon, Denver's most storied speakeasy.

Central City celebrates its most famous madam by racing beds down Main Street.

The ruins of an ancient Zoroastrian Tower of Silence believed to be the earliest example of the traditional funerary practice.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

If you can look past the nearby sewer pipes, this urban sinkhole grotto is a mini-paradise.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.

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I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

This tiny lake temple dedicated to a water goddess seems to float on the surface.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

The top of a giant mesa, just outside of Amarillo, appears to float in the sky above.

Be careful not to get trampled at this lively two thousand-year-old market.

The lovely lake that was naturally dammed, then naturally destroyed, then unnaturally saved.

This Soviet-era athletic and recreation facility is the highest ice skating rink in the world.