The oldest restaurant in Portland serves fiery coffee cocktails and an astounding amount of turkey.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

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

Unlikely place for krautrock legends to hang out.

This often-overlooked monument was crafted in the shape of the iconic samurai coin to honor an Edo-period mint.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Once a year, thousands of naked cyclists flood the streets of a Seattle neighborhood.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.