Kyoto, Japan
Kameya Kiyonaga
This 400-year-old sweet shop serves a delicacy some have described as "edible incense."
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Kyoto, Japan
This 400-year-old sweet shop serves a delicacy some have described as "edible incense."
Kyoto, Japan
This kitsch-forward diner is dedicated to an almost-forgotten “one-cent” prototype of okonomiyaki.
Little River, South Carolina
Dine on superb local staples in a converted historic church.
Takasaki, Japan
Each year this Japanese temple overflows with scowling, bearded good luck talismans.
Karuizawa, Japan
Children's literature inside, forest all around.
Annaka, Japan
This iconic “station bento” comes in an earthenware pot you can take home and repurpose.
Ratlinghope, England
A quiet country churchyard holds a monument to the last known sin-eater in England.
Madron, England
Legend says this ancient pagan site can cure all ailments.
Conway, South Carolina
This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.
Sharow, England
The pyramid-shaped grave of one of the first mountain astronomers and a pyramid theorist.
Durham, New Hampshire
This small stone chapel is a hidden gem just outside the University of New Hampshire campus.
Manchester, New Hampshire
One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.
Exeter, New Hampshire
Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town.
Lincoln, New Hampshire
A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.
Hove, England
An unassuming churchyard is the resting place of a pioneering surveyor and reluctant namesake of a mountain.
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.
Beaufort, North Carolina
Burial site more than 300 years old.
Knoxville, Tennessee
Stroll around the headstones of notable figures from Knoxville's history, as well as towering monoliths and melancholic headstones.
Dedham, Massachusetts
This memorial garden is the final resting place of many beloved pets including that of a famous explorer.
Parkersburg, West Virginia
A melancholy guardian doubles as a judicious godmother to this small town cemetery.
Brockenhurst, England
This local celebrity earned his fame by doing a job no one else dared.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Porto, Portugal
Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.
Tokyo, Japan
The original location of the eponymous site of Japan’s Yayoi period is now lost in time.