This oddly beautiful water cistern is a techno-temple to the wet stuff and a multimedia masterpiece.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Mediums from a psychic utopian community lead a trippy VR journey on a parked desert bus.

Take in a rare, face-to-face glimpse of Lady Liberty at this tucked away Red Hook park.

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

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

An anthropological theme park that depicts the cultures of around 20 different countries.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Natural rock formations resembling monks in hats inspire folk legends.

This museum dedicated to divination also honors a local 10th-century prophetess.

This unassuming retro burger joint was billed as “diner of the future” at the 1939 World's Fair.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

A pastry shop specializing in Sephardic sweets serves historic recipes in Ribadavia’s Jewish quarter.

This museum pays tribute to the largest group in the Iroquois Confederacy.

This museum shines a light on the true Pilgrim experience in North America.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

The shop where the girl who inspired the beloved character once bought sweets is now a book-themed commercial curiosity.

The largest Neolithic ruins in the world hide a notably clean prehistoric metropolis.