Okinawa, Japan
Okinawan Bullfights
A bovine sumo match in which both bulls live to fight another day.
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Okinawa, Japan
A bovine sumo match in which both bulls live to fight another day.
Tomigusuku, Japan
Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.
Kurashiki, Japan
Fans line up at the crack of dawn for a slurpy bowl of deliciousness at this noodle counter inside a factory.
Tokyo, Japan
A cool dive bar, off the beaten track.
Anchorage, Alaska
A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.
Juneau, Alaska
Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.
Juneau, Alaska
On top of a sheet metal business in Juneau stand nearly a dozen charming Wizard of Oz statues.
Miami, Florida
Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.
Miami Beach, Florida
12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.
Hartford, Connecticut
An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.
Hartford, Connecticut
A tiny memorial for the year the Connecticut River almost destroyed New England.
Hartford, Connecticut
A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.
Hartford, Connecticut
This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.
Hartford, Connecticut
This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.
Bangor, Maine
This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”
Bangor, Maine
This museum explores the history of policing and is also home to a very popular taxidermied duck.
Bangor, Maine
Abraham Lincoln's vice president took his last breath here on July 4, 1891.
Bangor, Maine
This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.
Bangor, Maine
The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
These engineering masterpieces are a dominant feature of the Belfast skyline.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
This massive monument has been telling the time for 150 years—at a slight angle.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
A small plaque highlights the damage caused by German air raids during World War II.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
It was once nicknamed "the most bombed hotel in Europe."
Belfast, Northern Ireland
A giant sculpture of the legendary "Salmon of Knowledge" celebrates the return of fish to Belfast's River Lagan.