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A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

Train cars and railroad artifacts abound at this restaurant devoted to railway history.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

A small collection of iguana-infested ruins hides amid Cancún's bustling hotel zone.

Underwater art project will double as a massive artificial coral reef to help regenerate the damaged ecosystem.

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

Forever immortalized in concrete, this Simpsons etching was crafted by show creator Matt Groening.

The oldest tofu shop in the United States is a firm favorite with locals.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

Warm water springs inside an astounding canyon.

An eccentric German artist built this weird and wondrous castle packed with shocking sculptures and alien art.

This trio of Dominican cave lakes comprise a colorful biosphere of natural life.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

One man's dream has turned into this naturally growing chapel made of almost nothing but trees.

The most southerly spot on New Zealand's South Island is home to surreally shaped, permanently mangled trees.