Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

Come for the chanting, stay for the monastical vegan buffet.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

This supper-club-turned-concert-venue still serves drinks at its original rotating bar.

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.

A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.

One of the largest cat sanctuaries in North America is considered a "Club Med" for felines.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

Grab a cuppa at England's first and only domestic tea plantation.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

Folklore says this medieval fortress was plopped atop a portal to hell to trap the demons below.

An institution dedicated to curiosity, logic, riddles, and Mongolia's long history of puzzles.

A Swiss board game museum housed inside a picture-perfect castle.

Iceland's only steampunk shop imagines a retro-futuristic world that never was.