Detroit, Michigan
Grand Trunk Pub
The grandiose interior of this bar speaks to its past as home to famous jewelers and railway offices.
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Detroit, Michigan
The grandiose interior of this bar speaks to its past as home to famous jewelers and railway offices.
Natchez, Mississippi
A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.
Lucas, Kansas
A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.
Los Angeles, California
A classically trained chef makes beloved burritos inside a gas station.
Rockford, Michigan
With over 5,000 champions, the Hall of Fame continues to draw amateur eaters.
Reykjavik, Iceland
One of the oldest family businesses in Reykjavík serves lamb-based hot dogs.
Chicago, Illinois
A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.
Gyeongju, South Korea
From mid-September to early November, dreamy fields of pink muhly grass spring up all over South Korea.
Cleveland, Ohio
A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.
Denver, Colorado
The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.
Stockholm, Sweden
An 11th-century runestone decorates the halls of Terminal 2 of this Scandinavian travel hub.
Greece
These artifacts were discovered during the construction of the airport, with some dating back to the Neolithic period.
Portland, Oregon
At this airport "microcinema," you can catch a film before you catch a flight.
Belle Vue, Saint Lucia
A volcanically-heated waterfall in the St. Lucian rainforest.
Valga, Estonia
For the last century, this international border within a small town has appeared and disappeared various times.
Calgary, Alberta
With its webbed walls and bright red coloring, Calgary's iconic bridge looks like a finger trap puzzle stretched across the river.
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
The maze-like transportation hub contains abandoned areas, derelict stores, and a resident bat colony.
Tring, England
Each spring this woodland floor is carpeted with purplish flowers as far as the eye can see.
Koytendag, Turkmenistan
A cave covered with bizarre stalactites of cloth.
Uppsala, Sweden
A nightly tradition fills the streets of Flogsta with a collective scream.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A magician and his beloved, pampered canine were buried together, within days of each other, due to a tragic twist of fate.
Ko Tarutao, Thailand
The cursed island of black pebbles.
St. Augustine, Florida
Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.
Iceland
The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.