Montreal, Québec
Montreal Signs Project
This permanent exhibition of commercial signs aims to preserve the cultural heritage of the city.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Montreal, Québec
This permanent exhibition of commercial signs aims to preserve the cultural heritage of the city.
St. Augustine, Florida
This shrine commemorates the site of the first known Catholic mass in the United States.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Welcome to the home of the world's largest typewriter company.
Charleston, South Carolina
Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.
Savannah, Georgia
Tucked away inside a historic Savannah hotel is a hundred-year history presented in ladies' lids.
Savannah, Georgia
Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.
Varginha, Brazil
This spacecraft-shaped water tower is only a part of the mysterious UFO mania in this Brazilian town.
Danville, Pennsylvania
Construction uncovered this trove of fossils, which visitors are welcome to add to their own collections.
Frackville, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania’s creepiest roadside attraction is a haunting example of roadside kitsch.
Catawissa, Pennsylvania
These hooded graves are the only of their kind in the United States.
Aristes, Pennsylvania
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.
Tlacolula de Matamoros, Mexico
This Oaxacan restaurant serves native corn and Indigenous recipes.
San Agustín Etla, Mexico
Pause in an abandoned hydroelectric station, now overrun with wildlife, to consider a thought-provoking poem.
Monte Albán, Mexico
These sacred Mesoamerican ruins feature peculiar petroglyphs hidden in the stones.
Dandarah, Egypt
One of the most well-preserved temples of ancient Egypt.
Kaatsheuvel, Netherlands
This fairy tale forest hides scenes from some of the more obscure and bizarre Western nursery stories.
Berlin, Germany
For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”
Berlin, Germany
A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.
Radebeul, Germany
A museum dedicated to telling lies in service of the truth.
Hanoi, Vietnam
This steamed rice crepe specialist has been rolling up its namesake dish for over 30 years.
Hanoi, Vietnam
Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.
Vinh An, Vietnam
A cityscape of burial tombs that you can easily lose yourself in.
Da Nang, Vietnam
This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.
Phan Thiet, Vietnam
These crumbling towers are some of the last remnants of a centuries-old Vietnamese culture.