Secret hideaway for an alternative beach experience.

An eatery within the Minneapolis American Indian Center writes colonial ingredients out of the story of Native American cuisine.

A museum dedicated to the exploring past, present, and future innovations.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

Sitting beneath an unremarkable residential building is a museum devoted to classic Pinball.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

Possibly the world's largest hourglass only needs to be reset every New Year's Eve.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

This off-beat, quirky communism-themed bar isn't afraid to poke fun at its history.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

This Budapest bar allows drinkers to leave their mark on the walls, floor, and even ceiling.

A 19th century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

Visiting this café is like visiting the Austrian grandma you wish you had.