Austin, Texas
Curia Arcanum
This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.
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Austin, Texas
This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.
Grand Canyon Village, Arizona
This Native American settlement dates back to the Pueblo II period.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.
Mexico
These cliff-dwellings might be Mexico's least visited archaeological site.
Napa, California
Napa's oldest building is now a Mexican restaurant.
San Jose, California
The oldest house in the capital of Silicon Valley.
Phoenix, Arizona
Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.
Marmirolo, Italy
Once the hunting reserve of a noble family, this is one of the few remnants of Pleistocene planitial forest in northern Italy that still stands.
Providence, Rhode Island
Rumors of the occult haunt this upscale 1920s hotel.
Ranua, Finland
This bed and breakfast is steeped in history and offers guests a unique way to experience nature—glass igloos on a frozen lake.
Harderwijk, Netherlands
While most bridges allow roads to pass over water, this one allows water to pass over a road.
Naples, Italy
An unusual "skull with ears" sits in the crypt of this small church tucked away at the end of a narrow alley.
Los Angeles, California
A Romanesque sanctuary of calm amid the bustle of downtown Los Angeles.
Corte Madera, California
Across Ring Mountain is a vast collection of Native American petroglyphs unique to the region.
Oaxaca, Mexico
In a quiet residential neighborhood, one restaurant fights to preserve heirloom corn, one tortilla at a time.
Puente Viesgo, Spain
The walls of these four caverns are filled with art that dates back to the earliest human presence in Europe.
San Martín Centro, Mexico
These millennia-old murals once covered the walls of residential complexes across the ancient city.
Hamilton Township, New Jersey
Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.
Bjurholm, Sweden
A Swedish farm is the world's only producer of the rare, creamy delicacy that is moose cheese.
Lisbon, Portugal
This little-known national museum houses over 40,000 works of art from across the world.
Italy
The 16th-century son of Sienese nobility carved this hermitage out of volcanic rock.
Wayne, Alberta
This ghost-town bar has bullet holes and plenty of stories lurking within its walls.
Cervantes, Australia
One of the few places in the world home to living stromatolites.
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
The preserved remains of the former Milwaukee County Hospital for the Insane are hidden in the wooded grounds of County Park.