Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

These medicine cabinet staples are part of the museum's collection of everyday objects.

The only Civil War battle in Washington D.C. took place near this highest natural point in the city.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

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Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.