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This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

Chef Lawrence West serves up Indian tacos, wojapi, and other Lakota dishes at the brick-and-mortar incarnation of his popular food truck.

The dishes at this restaurant by The Sioux Chef celebrate indigenous heritage.

Sample cuisine inspired by the Great Plains indigenous people who have been gathering at this sacred Canadian Heritage Park for 6,000 years.

Guerilla gardeners reclaimed this abandoned railroad land literally putting down roots.

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

This incredible narrow-gauge mountain railway was created by a ceramic artist.

This 1,500-acre development hopes to be the Central Park of the South.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

Although it appears much older, this castle-like tower is actually a Georgian-era folly.

Deep in the Guatemalan jungle stands an ancient pyramid that once marked the reign of a king.

This massive Maya archaeological site is home to the tallest man-made structure in Belize.

The abstract sandstone rock formations at this Algerian national park are rich with prehistoric art.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.

Colorful, cheeky signs spill out of legendary New Orleans folk artist Dr. Bob's Bywater studio warning you to "Be Nice—Or Leave."

This clock tower is all that remains of Bird Hall, constructed by one of the founding families of this Massachusetts town.