A distinctive former power plant turned university lecture hall looks like it could make you breakfast.

By night, this auto repair shop turns into a taquería serving up some of the city's finest al pastor tacos.

Outside this souvenir shop is a statue of Bigfoot composed of volcanic ash, and plenty more to see inside.

At 16,627 feet above sea level, this unstaffed station is the highest in the world.

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

Eat like a bird in a bamboo nest.

A gorgeous gilded tower houses what may be the world's largest collection of gin.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

This futuristic German television spire is actually the world's largest digital clock.

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

An abandoned underground bathroom is now a space for public art.

This bakery and museum offers tours of the tastes and mythology of Aachen's signature spice biscuit—just don't ask for the recipe.

Get past the gatekeeper's apartment and enter an elaborate hoax of a restaurant with a Masonic feel.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

A tiny village is home to the world's only diner completely devoted to the many varieties of traditional Swedish dumplings.

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

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

The Buddhist temples of Yamadera, built into a mountain side, feature a viewing deck with sweeping views.

A massive wintry wall of snow up to 66 feet tall flanks a highway through Japan's mountains.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

Each year this Japanese temple overflows with scowling, bearded good luck talismans.

White beach sands made of the remains of tiny, star shaped creatures.

This isolated Japanese mountain village untouched by time showcases unique and stunning traditional architecture.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.