Nara, Japan
Nekodan (Cat Stairway)
According to local legend, anyone who falls on these temple steps will turn into a cat.
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Nara, Japan
According to local legend, anyone who falls on these temple steps will turn into a cat.
Guadalajara, Mexico
A beautiful and controversial modern sculpture that alludes to the Aztec past identity of the Virgin of Guadalupe and the phenomenon of syncretism.
Konstanz, Germany
A sculpture of a courtesan towers above Lake Constance, recalling a church scandal.
Oberhausen, Germany
An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.
Baltimore, Maryland
A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.
Chandigarh, India
A palatial sculpture park was built illegally and in secret by a self-taught artist over 36 years.
La Pointe, Wisconsin
These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.
Glasgow, Scotland
A secret door leads to this cozy dive that sells only “milk.”
Ridgedale, Missouri
If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Once a speakeasy operated by Al Capone, this Milwaukee cigar bar is now a haven for ghost hunters.
Washington, D.C.
Mysterious installations bring levity and light to a sometimes stodgy city.
Lake Louise, Alberta
Take a hike to this remote, scenic tea stop in the Canadian Rockies.
Jingwan-gil, South Korea
An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.
San Vicente Pacaya, Guatemala
For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.
Lalibela, Ethiopia
An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.
Yichang, China
A cliff-hanging restaurant.
Teguise, Spain
The chefs at El Diablo use heat generated by an active volcano to cook the food.
Hakone, Japan
Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.
Madison, Wisconsin
The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.
Madison, Wisconsin
This forgotten beach house built to look like a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece overlooks a hidden beach.
Madison, Wisconsin
Hidden away in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a nearly forgotten home that Frank Lloyd Wright built for a childhood friend.
Madison, Wisconsin
Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.
Madison, Wisconsin
A hundred-year-old museum filled with giant physics toys and experiments designed by grad students.