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The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A strange rock with a sinister reputation lurks within the crimson waters of this Scottish glen.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

An underwater city for the dead.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.