This former abandoned train station converted into a restaurant and small museum is a delight for both casual diners and rail enthusiasts alike.

Tucked away on Somerville Avenue is a curated mycological gallery.

Explore the wide world of desert plants at this unique Palm Springs botanical garden.

This historic railway museum may have lost its passengers but not its love for trains.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

Up on the iconic Tsutenkaku Tower sits an American mascot that became Osaka’s own lucky god.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

This sculpture bears a tragic backstory that may have inspired a hauntingly beautiful children's song.

Inspired by the famous sculptures on Easter Island, this head serves as a popular meeting spot by Shibuya Station.

This ordinary set of steps is a must-see destination for fans of a certain romantic anime.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

Surreal giant face-pillars welcome visitors from across the globe to this hotel.

A Japanese fertility god in the shape of a large phallus.

A 17th-century Japanese bell brought back by U.S. sailors after WWII and later gifted as a symbol of peace.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.