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One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

This conservation area filled with colorful birds is the last community forest within the city of Kathmandu.

Exceptional Nepalese food can be found in a Texas gas station.

This mysterious medieval grotto holds a grid of sacred wells of unknown purpose.

The healing properties of this well attracted royals and commoners throughout the Middle Ages.

Narrow passes cut out of mountains surround the medieval capital of Japan.

An eatery within the Minneapolis American Indian Center writes colonial ingredients out of the story of Native American cuisine.

A unique museum dedicated to culture and artistry of carpet weaving.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

Visitors flock to the historic birthplace of radiobalneology for its therapeutic radium treatments.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

Artisans have been gathering in North Carolina since 1989 to show off whimsical takes on an everyday item.

The secular incarnation of a religious meditation.

A son's promise to his dying father in the form of a covered bridge filled with thousands of seashells.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.

Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

One of the world's largest murals covers a large swath of homes in its hillside neighborhood.

One of the oldest seagoing boats in the world can be found at the Dover Museum.

What happens when a chef with Indigenous roots takes over a hotel-restaurant?

The Gunditjmara Aboriginal people of Australia began construction on this vast aquacultural complex 6,600 years ago.

This store offers tastes of Aboriginal Australia, with some contemporary and global twists.