The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

An open-air, roadside eatery celebrating a historic indigenous cuisine of complicated significance.

Descend 2,030 years into the past in an ancient tunnel built to support Jerusalem's most famous wall.

This "Jewish Sistine Chapel" was designed to reinvigorate Judaism's artistic legacy but was almost lost to misguided restoration.

Through a collection of modern bric-a-brac this museum tells the story of the Jewish people from Biblical times to today.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

This historic rec center in the heart of Israel is a bastion of peace and togetherness.

Cool down and fill up after visiting Teotihuacán at this bar and restaurant in a deep, underground cave.

Dance on a hand-hewn log floor padded with bouncy boxcar springs at a saloon built in 1883.

How would you like to dine in the same room where some of the Titanic's victims were embalmed?

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

Amid the clacking of snooker balls, diners tuck into fiery Bhutanese fare.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

On the shores of Kyrgyzstan's Issyk-Kul Lake, a family cooks a feast that tells the sad tale of a people's exile.

This eatery re-creates dishes from the Ottoman Empire so you can dine like a sultan.

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.