Edinburgh, Scotland
Paperback Bookshop Rhinoceros
This small sculpture honors a shuttered bookshop that was the site of a fiery act of protest.
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Edinburgh, Scotland
This small sculpture honors a shuttered bookshop that was the site of a fiery act of protest.
Lincoln, Ontario
The third version of this tall sailing ship sits, rusted and burnt, in Lake Ontario.
San Juan Teotihuacan de Arista, Mexico
Dating back to the second century, vestiges of prehispanic mural paintings are found in this underground palace.
San Francisco Mazapa, Mexico
Cool down and fill up after visiting Teotihuacán at this bar and restaurant in a deep, underground cave.
Mexico City, Mexico
The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses connected by a bridge.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
London, England
A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.
London, England
A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.
London, England
This medieval church tower has maintained its clockworks since the 16th century.
Nottingham, England
The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.
Antwerp, Belgium
A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.
Stamford, Connecticut
Forgotten under the construction of a new urban roadway is a small, abandoned part of town.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.
Paris, France
The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.
London, England
This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.
Stonington, Connecticut
Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.
New Haven, Connecticut
While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.
New York, New York
New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.
Brussels, Belgium
A fantastical 13th-century fortification sandwiched by a modern hotel in central Brussels.
Boston, Massachusetts
American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.
Boston, Massachusetts
A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.
Boston, Massachusetts
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
Mexico City, Mexico
Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.
Puerto Rico
A magnificent waterfall nestled in the heart of the El Yunque National Forest.