Located in Nairobi National Park, this animal orphanage is the oldest of its kind in Kenya.

A salty cave excavated by elephants and the location of a deadly disease vector.

The farmhouse owned by the Danish author who wrote "Out of Africa" is now a museum honoring her legacy.

Strolling through these vintage locomotives offers a surprising amount of insight into the history of Kenya.

A glass and sculpture wonderland forms an oasis in a remote part of Kenya.

This water goblin statue represents a 19th-century urban legend about a haunted canal that became a Japanese idiom.

This Japanese Manneken Pis gets new outfits for every occasion.

Weighing nearly 7 tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

One of the largest collections of intact Victorian-era waterworks equipment in the world.

Dedicated to the explorer who opened Japan to the West.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

A unusual sanctuary for abused and exotic animals in South Jersey.

Several times a year, during low tide, two pairs of historic train tracks are revealed on this New Jersey beach.