Anna Anderson spent most of her life claiming to be the lost Romanov child Anastasia.

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Offal and flawless onion soup are on the menu at this restaurant that once catered to the workers of Les Halles.

Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.

Grab a life-changing ham sandwich at this former horse butchershop.

Head to this repurposed Renault van for fiery sausages and fries.

After immigrating to Paris in the 1970s, two brothers from Laos built a grocery store empire.

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

Travel back in time at a Moroccan-inspired restaurant that was the height of glamor in the 1970s.

This Algerian sweet shop serves confections in an eye-popping array of hues.

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

An otherworldly alpine pasture with its own unique microculture that recalls Middle Earth.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

In addition to fine dairy products, the world's most beautiful milk shop also offers a feast for the eyes.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.