West Chester, Pennsylvania
Baldwin's Book Barn
This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.
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West Chester, Pennsylvania
This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.
Hobart, New York
This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.
Porto, Portugal
One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.
São Paulo, Brazil
The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.
Paris, France
The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.
Richmond, Virginia
This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.
Manila, Philippines
A church made of steel.
Williamsburg, Virginia
Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.
Yermo, California
A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.
Cairo, Illinois
A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.
Chitina, Alaska
The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.
Central City, Colorado
This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.
Carthage, Missouri
When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.
Keeler, California
A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate turned YouTube famous.
Rome, Italy
Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.
Charlottesville, Virginia
Anna Anderson spent most of her life claiming to be the lost Romanov child Anastasia.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Housed inside a replica church, its collection honors the Black community displaced by the Halifax government.
Boston, Massachusetts
In the 19th century, this was the center of Boston's Black community.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.
Gerlach, Nevada
A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.
Irkutsk, Russia
Thanks to a spelling mistake this bizarre beaver-tiger hybrid became the symbol of a Siberian town.
Glasgow, Scotland
The world's spiciest ice cream comes from Glasgow.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.