Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

This eatery re-creates dishes from the Ottoman Empire so you can dine like a sultan.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

Mexico City's largest market contains a Willy Wonka-esque wonderland.

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

This small roadside eatery exists in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, as the equator runs right through it.

Summer in the "Turtle Racing Capital of the World" means rousing weekly reptile races.

A Perpetually Under construction Park.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

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.

This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.

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

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.

A bronze kitty adorns the grave of the polar explorer who brought the original feline to the Antarctic.

This unusual rock formation looks like an apple that has been neatly sliced in half.

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

One of the world's largest Tesla coils.

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

One man's dream has turned into this naturally growing chapel made of almost nothing but trees.

Overlooking a Scottish loch, this beautifully crumbling castle once inspired a poem by William Wordsworth.

An eccentric aristocrat brought these Australian natives to their current Scottish home.