First planned industrial community in the United States.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

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

The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.

The oldest bookstore in Iceland.

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

This “peasant café” in the middle of Tokyo re-creates the atmosphere of the Japanese countryside.

This tiny museum hidden above a restaurant houses thousands of modern and traditional kites.

A museum dedicated to the history of Tokyo's often-overlooked working-class district.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

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

The Real LegoLand.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

This large maar crater in Oregon is the bigger brother to Hole in the Ground.