Reading, England
Maiwand Lion
The lion represents a fascinating part of English history, and the story of a man who obsessed over its creation.
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Reading, England
The lion represents a fascinating part of English history, and the story of a man who obsessed over its creation.
Mijas, Spain
A man's curious and seriously small handmade objects from around the world.
Bontoc, Philippines
Engravings of penises and vaginas on a boulder in the Philippines dates local tribal history back to the Bronze Age.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This museum tells a lively, personal, and wide-ranging history of jazz music.
Nebraska City, Nebraska
Over a million artifacts fill this factory-turned-museum that explores the history of American windmill production.
Washington, D.C.
A small park honors the legendary Ukrainian poet.
Glen Rock, New Jersey
The 570-ton boulder that gave a New Jersey town its name.
Kyoto, Japan
Sip “liquid cuisine” made with meat, vegetables, and insects.
Grip, Norway
On a tiny island in northwestern Norway, one of the country's few remaining original stave churches.
Tokyo, Japan
The only Kurdish restaurant in Japan invites you to learn and feast.
Brooklyn, New York
This nondescript coffee shop conceals one of the wildest patisseries in New York City.
Karbabad, Bahrain
This underground art installation recreates an ancient date honey storeroom.
Raleigh, North Carolina
A curious art piece along a lovely biking trail marks several historic floods via a series of colorful poles that represent floodwater heights.
London, England
The location Geoffrey Chaucer and tale-telling pilgrims set off for Canterbury in April 1386.
Iscar, Spain
This Castilian castle has stood the test of time like few others.
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
At a museum dedicated to the millenia-old rites and art of Buddhism, the Buddha's reputed tooth is held as an object of worship.
Cambridge, England
The design of this seemingly translucent two-story tower in northwest Cambridge was inspired by an optical illusion.
Kirkcaldy, Scotland
A tribute to a child prodigy who died way too young.
Reus, Spain
Built between 1901 and 1908, this building is one of the most iconic examples of modernist architecture in Spain.
Durman, Tajikistan
Right beyond the Uzbekistan-Tajikistan border lies the oldest human settlement in Central Asia.
Aranjuez, Spain
This waterfall, also known as the “the castanets” is said to mimic the sounds of the waves in Portugal.
Longyearbyen, Norway
In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.
Pyramiden, Norway
This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
French scientists make up the majority of the few humans to occupy this remote island in the extreme southern Indian Ocean.