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Sited in an Inner Mongolian desert are the remnants of an important trade stop along the Silk Road.

Tintin's creator is celebrated in an immersive museum that's an astounding work of modern art.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

This aromatherapy shop and mini-museum cofounded by the Sigur Rós frontman documents Icelandic history through scents.

One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.

These gardens recreate unique and endangered Michigan habitats.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

You can soak in three relaxing pools filled daily by the tide.

One of Europe's largest groups of dolmens remains largely off the typical tourist track.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years.

Started nearly 100 years ago, this science experiment just keeps on going, ever so slowly.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.

This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

A circle of giant painted vases in the former pottery capital of the United States.

The fine fabric handwoven at Biltmore Industries was once coveted around the world.

The world's largest and most outstanding marl lake regularly changes color.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

The home of 1.5 million wood letters for printing is still a functioning workshop.