This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

This cave column thousands of feet below the earth’s surface is rightly named for one of the most colorful park rangers in history.

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

Louis Sullivan’s dark, swirling cast-iron designs envelop a popular department store in this Chicago landmark.

Existing for more than four centuries, the last of Hakone’s historic teahouses serves a sweet, mold-based rice drink.

The centuries-old cobblestones of a feudal highway remain in the woods of Hakone.

Coast along one of Japan’s mountain railways for coveted views of magnificent hydrangeas.

You can receive a blessing for your electronics at this Shinto shrine near Akihabara.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

This Buddhist temple may have the best example of a Pure Land garden in Japan.

This is not Madame Tussaud’s wax museum.

This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.

A 1000-year-old shrine in Kyoto with a poorly planned sacred arch.

Japan’s oldest clock tower has been called one of the country’s most disappointing attractions.

This old ruin once served as a post office, a train station, a restaurant, and a bridge to the Atomic Age.

This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.

The building stands within a quiet, postcard-perfect New Mexico village.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

This retro café is a remnant of Japan’s post-war Argentine tango craze.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.