Venture into the past with an unlisted exhibit hall featuring extinct birds.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

A festival where people vie to be bombarded by exploding clusters of fireworks.

Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.

A comprehensive collection of toy and model trains, largely from the mid-20th century.

An unexpected must-see for fans of Star Wars who find themselves on the beautiful island of Sint Maarten.

In the Scottish Highlands, this 13th-century castle ruin is hidden at the end of a farm track.

One of Kyoto's oldest food establishments has supplied soba noodles to temple priests and the Imperial Palace.

This crab paste noodle soup specialist has been doling out its namesake dish for more than four decades.

He’s not from around here.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

Climb to the top of this spiritual tower, and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views.

Glasgow's oldest pub has a proud literary tradition and possibly a ghost or two.

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

Farms are serving pizza made from their own fresh crops, a growing trend in the American Midwest.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

An interactive back-alley mural project remembers the golden age of Kuala Lumpur’s Chinatown.

Mural fragments and various sculptures honor the longtime artist.

A refurbished locomotive from a bygone era in the middle of the Jordanian desert.

A semi-abandoned replica of Prince Edward Island's Avonlea—in Japan.

Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

The “City of Stairs” sits high in the Andes, above the world’s largest underground copper mine.

This Nebraska town wants to double its population with plywood cut-outs of townsfolk.