Portland, Oregon
Wilhelm’s Portland Memorial Funeral Home
The largest mausoleum on the West Coast, with over seven miles of corridors, perched on a riverside bluff.
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Portland, Oregon
The largest mausoleum on the West Coast, with over seven miles of corridors, perched on a riverside bluff.
San Sebastián, Spain
The forest hides a cemetery where members of the British Legion rest in peace.
Brașov, Romania
A habitable museum, or a time machine into Romania’s Communist era?
Coimbra, Portugal
A Portuguese museum display features a bizarre assortment of objects.
Cham, Germany
A museum of broadcasting with an array of vintage equipment and its own active transmitter.
Kyoto, Japan
A 1000-year-old shrine in Kyoto with a poorly planned sacred arch.
Itō, Japan
Fanatical collections of vintage toys, dolls, clothes, and objects.
Riga, Latvia
A former graveyard for Riga’s elite is now a large park with elegant monuments.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.
Paju, South Korea
A seldom-visited resting place for North Korean soldiers and spies.
Palatine, Illinois
Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.
Chisinau, Moldova
Once built to inspire young Soviet minds through astronomy, this dome now stands as a quiet relic of a vanished era.
Hann. Münden, Germany
This cabinet of curiosities contains many special and fantastical objects from around the world.
Kyoto, Japan
Enjoy a flaming concoction steeped in steampunk, magic, and alchemy at this experimental cocktail bar.
Gallup, New Mexico
John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, and other Hollywood actors have resided in this picturesque Route 66 hotel.
Elgin, Illinois
The oldest purpose built museum in Illinois, home to original Victorian taxidermy.
Zelienople, Pennsylvania
The first burial place of the Harmonist Society, a utopian community for which the surrounding town of Harmony is named.
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
The spoon-bending sensation himself leads visitors on tours.
Thomas, West Virginia
Catch rising stars of Appalachia’s music scene before they make it big at this restaurant and community hub.
Sofia, Bulgaria
An interactive museum-like experience takes visitors back to 1980s Communist Bulgaria.
Gardena, California
The last family-owned, single-screen moviehouse in La La Land.
Zagreb, Croatia
A house that transports visitors back to Yugoslavia.
Coimbra, Portugal
One of the oldest universities in the world exhibits thousands of specimens from its 700-year-old collection.
Allinge, Denmark
World War II Soviet Russian soldiers were buried on the Danish island after the war had ended.