Kyoto, Japan
Yokai Street
This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.
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Kyoto, Japan
This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.
Bixter, Scotland
Across the islands, baked goods, sauces, and much more are for sale 24/7.
Kyoto, Japan
This 400-year-old sweet shop serves a delicacy some have described as "edible incense."
Lititz, Pennsylvania
Don't get it twisted: This is the oldest pretzel bakery in the United States.
Scottsdale, Arizona
An open-air, roadside eatery celebrating a historic indigenous cuisine of complicated significance.
Pacific Grove, California
Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.
Keilor North, Australia
Cooled, fractured lava formed this geometric rock feature.
Wilsons Promontory, Australia
The spherical grains of white quartz sand give every step on this Australian beach a distinctive sound.
Wilsons Promontory, Australia
A unique rock formation that only a few have managed to venture inside.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.
Washington, D.C.
The most accurate timepiece in the world.
Washington, D.C.
A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.
District of Columbia
The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.
Framingham, Massachusetts
A historic bridge no one is allowed to cross.
Moux, France
The haunting cadaver tomb of a famous French poet, playwright, and filmmaker.
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.
Bari, Italy
A dead saint, a deadly poison, and a mysterious holy ooze.
Alicante, Spain
Once used to calculate the various levels around the country.
Krakow, Poland
Inside this Krakow church, an explosion of psychedelic color.
Portland, Oregon
These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.
Irlavas pagasts, Latvia
A railway bridge leading nowhere stands lonely in the middle of a meadow.
Cape Town, South Africa
Despite many attempts to finish this overpass, it has been abandoned since the 1970s.
Mount Baldy, California
Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.
Tlacolula de Matamoros, Mexico
This Oaxacan restaurant serves native corn and Indigenous recipes.