New York, New York
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Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.
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New York, New York
Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.
New York, New York
A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.
Cross Plains, Texas
The house where the pulp fiction writer and Conan the Barbarian creator lived.
Bellville, Texas
A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.
El Paso, Texas
This mountain tram provides stunning views while hanging from a single, steel thread.
Fort Worth, Texas
Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.
Amarillo, Texas
These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.
Bloomfield, New Mexico
The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.
Marble Canyon, Arizona
Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.
Nagasaki, Japan
The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.
Osaka, Japan
A 14th-century European chapel sticks out of the facade of a Japanese hotel.
Shingo, Japan
A small Japanese village claims to be the final resting place of the son of God (and God's other son's ear).
Tokorozawa, Japan
An infamous house made famous by director Takashi Shimizu.
Ōzora-chō, Japan
Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.
Kyoto, Japan
Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.
Hitachinaka, Japan
Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.
Nagasaki, Japan
Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.
Osaka, Japan
The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.
Hiroshima, Japan
A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.
Tsuruoka, Japan
The self-mummified monks of Japan.
Kyoto, Japan
The 10,000 Torii shrine.
Oamaru, New Zealand
The premier place to experience the Victorian imagining of the steam-powered future.
Dunedin, New Zealand
One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.