Buenos Aires, Argentina
El Ateneo Grand Splendid
This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.
Hayakawa, Japan
The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.
Hakone, Japan
This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.
Săpânța, Romania
A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.
Gloucester, Massachusetts
An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.
Key West, Florida
These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.
Paris, France
Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.
New York, New York
A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Rapid City, South Dakota
A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.
Queens, New York
The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.
Tucson, Arizona
The Magical World of George Phar Legler.
Beacon, New York
The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.
Louisville, Kentucky
This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.
Phoenix, Arizona
A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.
Rye, Colorado
The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.
Bishopville, South Carolina
One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.
Wimberley, Texas
A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.
Glendora, California
The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.
New York, New York
New York's oldest magic store.
Bryce, Utah
Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."
Los Angeles, California
One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.