The tallest city hall in the world offers an excellent bento box.

This brothel-turned-restaurant features plenty of surprises and elaborate, extravagant architecture.

This adorable birdlike police box is designed based on a play on words.

To the great disappointment of doomsdayers, this codex merely contains records of the Moon and Venus.

Feast on Middle Eastern mezze from an Israeli expat duo.

This crescent-shaped sliver of sand is a magical haven for a herd of feral horses.

This tiny abode has been covered in the art of the little old lady who made her life and living there.

The world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.

Walrus skulls and narwhal bones were found here while excavating a 900-year old church.

In a country where driving from one town to another is literally impossible, this small stretch of gravel is a remarkable feat.

No longer the only, but definitely the oldest, fountain in Greenland.

One Greenland town turned itself into an open air sculpture gallery with the help of a series of traditional stone artworks.

An experimental forest at the foreground of arboreal science is also the canary in the coal mine for climate change.

The 3.8 billion-year-old rock proves that tectonic plates may have been shifting longer than we thought.

Surprisingly Delicious Asian-Style Hot Dogs.

This iconic meat-and-three seasons every dish with ancestral cooking knowledge from South Carolina’s Lowcountry.

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

Established over a thousand years ago, this family-run teahouse continues to serve skewers of sweet rice cake to this day.

These turtle-shaped concrete stepping stones provide a unique river crossing in central Kyoto.

One of Kyoto's oldest food establishments has supplied soba noodles to temple priests and the Imperial Palace.

The only gallery in New York dedicated to olfactory art and the exploration of scent in art.

Slurp sesame noodles at the third-generation family-run establishment that invented them.

A stretch of the Iwai River that features beautiful rocky cliffs, rapids, and flying dango.