Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

The world's largest collection of ship figureheads includes figures from legends and history alike, from Sir Lancelot to Abraham Lincoln.

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

Historic church where a number of Shakespeare's actors are buried.

A relic from one of London's worst 19th-century slums.

Though it's not the largest, this one-kilometer outdoor market is reportedly the longest in Europe.

According to legend, this tomb holds the secrets to time travel.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This is one really big nut.