This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

The portrait of a man from Japan who sent weekly letters to a Dutch hotel he never visited.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

Originally conceived as part of a proposed Arizona State Capitol building in the 1950s, this structure built in 2004 stands as a monument to the architect's legacy.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

The highest natural point in New York City and all of the Atlantic coastal plain.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

A KFC honors an eighth-century Chinese poet with holograms and verse.

Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

An abandoned 1970s theme park that has been turned into a space for waterfront walking.

A fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.

One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

A cemetery and the town it served sinks beneath the sea during the volcanic birth of Mt. Vulcan.

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.