Tokyo, Japan
Oiteke Bori
This water goblin statue represents a 19th-century urban legend about a haunted canal that became a Japanese idiom.
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Tokyo, Japan
This water goblin statue represents a 19th-century urban legend about a haunted canal that became a Japanese idiom.
Rome, Italy
Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.
Tokyo, Japan
Weighing nearly seven tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.
Baker City, Oregon
This 80.33 troy ounces of solid gold is believed to be the largest nugget from Oregon still in its original form.
Alnwick, England
This giant wooden treehouse within a sprawling garden has its own eatery.
Peach Springs, Arizona
In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.
Adelaide, Australia
This store offers tastes of Aboriginal Australia, with some contemporary and global twists.
Rotterdam, Netherlands
This colorfully-painted tunnel links two distinct parts of a historic neighborhood.
Ekerö V, Sweden
The suspected burial mound of legendary Viking Björn Ironside.
Tulelake, California
Each winter this underground cave forms a dazzling ice palace.
Dover, England
One of the oldest seagoing boats in the world can be found at the Dover Museum.
Tokyo, Japan
This shrine dedicated to a legendary swordsman has become a pilgrimage site for the ill and infirmed.
San Francisco Mazapa, Mexico
Cool down and fill up after visiting Teotihuacán at this bar and restaurant in a deep, underground cave.
Mount Joy, Pennsylvania
In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.
Calgary, Alberta
What happens when a chef with Indigenous roots takes over a hotel-restaurant?
York, England
The final resting place of England's most notorious bandit.
Mexico City, Mexico
The ruins of the "place of the cloud snake" sit in the middle of an urban environment.
Boolboonda, Australia
The longest manmade tunnel in Queensland is now a beautiful trail, home to a special colony of bent-wing bats.
Srandakan, Indonesia
In this rare traditional factory, three generations of know-how, several strong cows, and a one-ton mortar come together to make Yogyakarta's famous "ugly noodles."
Heywood, Australia
The Gunditjmara Aboriginal people of Australia began construction on this vast aquacultural complex 6,600 years ago.
Pachuca de Soto, Mexico
One of the world's largest murals covers a large swath of homes in its hillside neighborhood.
Big Bend National Park, Texas
An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.
Hargeisa, Somalia
This cave located in the badlands of Somaliland contains some of the oldest cave art in Africa.
London, England
London's first edible insect farm offers facility tours and cooking classes.