New York, New York
Hare Krishna Tree
One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.
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New York, New York
One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.
Plymouth, England
The only place where can you share a seat with the bums of the Fab Four.
Antonito, Colorado
The childhood home of Henry Jones Jr. is now an adventure-themed bed and breakfast.
Rome, Italy
The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.
Southwell, England
Exquisite carvings of leaves, Green Men, and the occasional dragon adorn a medieval chapter house.
Agios Athanasios, Greece
A late 4th-century BC archaeological wonder located just outside the suburbs of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Chicago, Illinois
One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.
Khumjung, Nepal
A Himalayan monastery claims to have a piece of a centuries-old abominable snowman.
Kathmandu, Nepal
Sacred Buddhist home of some spiritual monkeys.
Dolomites, Italy
A climbing route in the mountains of Italy’s Dolomites, built for soldiers during World War I.
Ibiza, Spain
The largest and best preserved necropolis in the Western Mediterranean.
St. Augustine, Florida
A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.
LaPlace, Louisiana
All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.
London, England
A beautiful Georgian church alongside the Thames has a crypt in the basement, in which are buried the bodies of the infamous American traitor Benedict Arnold, his wife Peggy, and their daughter Sophia.
New York, New York
Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.
Littleton, New Hampshire
According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.
Honolulu, Hawaii
This mom-and-pop Japanese sweets shop has been serving cloud-light mochi for almost a century.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."
Long Beach, California
One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.
Paris, France
Offal and flawless onion soup are on the menu at this restaurant that once catered to the workers of Les Halles.
Ronda, Spain
Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.
England
Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".
Portsmouth, England
This genuine, blood red Jolly Roger was captured off the North African coast in 1790 by Admiral Richard Curry.