Running through lush forests and across the Tadami River, this train line offers breathtaking views of rural Japan.

This little known mountain has claimed four times as many lives as Everest.

Would you spend the night in Japan's deepest train station?

The remains of an old sawmill, gristmill and the surrounding industry dating back to the 18th century.

One of the last-standing and most prominent structures from a long-lost colonial port community.

Family-run for more than a century, this pizzeria makes a unique mustard pie.

North America's oldest quarantine facility was built in response to Philadelphia's 1793 yellow fever outbreak.

This splendid Versailles-inspired mansion has the largest French-style formal gardens in North America.

This local gem houses the largest collection of pre-Raphaelite paintings outside of the U.K.

Although built to generate electricity for Marylanders, this dam has become an all-you-can-eat buffet for American bald eagles.

This heritage rail line meanders through Delaware’s Red Clay Valley.

Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

Trade in that pesky human soul for cold-hard circuits.

A watercolor recreation of a famous fresco unearthed at Pompeii.

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

When beetles destroyed these trees, they found new life as fantasy sculptures.

The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.

Hamissi Mamba and Nadia Nijimbere opened this community-minded restaurant serving dishes from their native Burundi.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

It's gunky, it's gross, and it's been freed from the sewer and put on display.

Once the tallest building in Detroit, this Gothic church houses some of the oldest stained-glass windows in the country.

38-story baroque tower reflecting Detroit's rise, fall, and possible rise again.

The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.