A microbiologist-chef is slinging noodles with hyperlocal Nordic ingredients.

The former site of Fukuoka’s legendary ramen joint works hard to guide customers to the “original” original.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

Every summer, this shrine sets up a tiny drinking fountain reserved for thirsty apians.

A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.

Over 1.3 million confiscated wildlife products fill this macabre menagerie of illegal animal specimens.

Above an abandoned Underground station, this charming bookstore is home to strange antiquities and literary works.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

The oldest bookstore in Iceland.

Cherry blossom season comes early in this Japanese town where pink flowers line the streets and riverbanks.

Every spring, this walkway outside the Japan Mint turns into a cherry blossom tunnel.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

Dive for drinks at Croatia's first and only underwater winery.

This brothel-turned-restaurant features plenty of surprises and elaborate, extravagant architecture.

Blowtorches, tuna, and a jolly, chain-smoking proprietor mark this beloved street-food stand.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.