This arcade is one of the last places to catch a public performance by the now-defunct ShowBiz Pizza's house band of animatronic animals.

More than 100 antique vending machines housed in a used tire shop sell everything from candy to sake and ramen.

With no menu and no sign, this 130-year-old taverna doles out affordable home cooking.

A folk-art cottage and hotel straight from a Slavic fairy tale.

A former drinking water storage reservoir transformed into a sunken garden.

This "witch's market" is filled with Amazonian herbs, remedies, and the occasional libido-strengthening tincture.

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

A unique Buddhist temple with strange statues, beehives, and dinosaurs.

Kayak out to a floating restroom.

This enchanting hill is home to fairy lore and a sinister local mystery.

This post-war motel embodies a little-known, Miami-born architectural style.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

A British pub embodies the spirit of a California legend.

Whiskey lovers, this is your happy place.

A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.

A rare surviving example of a pre-WWII Japanese garden, restored after years of neglect.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

This mysterious anthropomorphic statuette is on display at the National Museum of Oman.

Secluded springs in the Rio Grande Gorge offer hot bathing beside the haunted ruins of a stagecoach stop.

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."

This unique rock formation has become a popular walking trail.

The sinister ruins of one of the worst dam failures of the 20th century lie in this astonishing alpine setting.