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

The tallest city hall in the world offers an excellent bento box.

A peculiarly shaped brass sculpture hidden in a courtyard in central Lviv

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

Exceptional Nepalese food can be found in a Texas gas station.

Located off a bustling strip, a silent teahouse employs workers with hearing- or speech-related disabilities.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

A small museum in this border city displays the contraband art that has been stolen back from smugglers.

Take Soviet nostalgia to new heights by toasting the first man in space over a full spread of Belarusian and Soviet fare.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

Some of the best Persian food in New York comes from the front window of an unassuming pizza shop.

Some claim these desert ruins are from the legendary "Atlantis of the Sands."

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

This cluttered cantina is famed for its cheese-spiked, raisin-flavored liqueur.

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

A former bastion of Rajput chivalry, this massive hill fort is the site of legend and tragedy.

Archaeological site of Iberian people ruins.

An isolated village literally built into the crevices and rock formations of a mountain.

This enchanting hamlet carved into the rock looks like something straight out of Tolkien's Rivendell.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

This Bordeaux parking garage has 712 indoor spaces, and one outdoor.

An abandoned nightclub has become a vibrant work of art.

The ruins of a bombed medieval village memorialize the destruction of the Spanish Civil War.

A small church ornamented with medieval erotic sculptures.