Kuala Lumpur’s historic single-screen cinema, transformed into a labyrinthine bookstore.

Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

The scattered debris of a T-33 Canadian naval jet crash from 1963 now stands as a memorial.

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

Is this the most Portland place ever?

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

The mountaintop wind turbine boasts a viewing deck — and a fair share of controversy.

A winding stairway to a secluded beach in a residential neighborhood.

Two graffiti towers stand like ghosts of Vancouver's World War II-era defensive outpost.

This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

Where Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein" and John William Polidori's "The Vampyre" were born.

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.

These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

This North African stone complex is considered to be the oldest astronomical observatory on Earth.