Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.

A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.

Step into a cartoon at this Seoul café that aims to evoke a two-dimensional scene.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

A tall smoke stack and boarded-up buildings are all that's left of the pioneering plant.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

This big empty pig is a nostalgic throwback to mid-20th-century Texas barbecue.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

One of the oldest continuously-operated gay bars in the United States is allegedly haunted by Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.