The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.

A quirky assortment of musical marvels from around the world.

The mummies of a fake priest and bandit's wife are among the abundant curiosities at this museum.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

A Caribbean chef recreates his enslaved great-great-grandmother's dishes inside the home she purchased after buying her freedom.

Malaysian fireflies create a dazzling display as thousands light up in unison.

"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.

Historic cuisine meets fine dining in a hotel-restaurant overlooking Hyde Park.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

All of the Malaysian sweets at this shop are made daily with a whole lot of love.

Slurp sesame noodles at the third-generation family-run establishment that invented them.

The legacies of two historic Black American institutions live on in this unassuming brick building.

This Singaporean food-court stall was home to the world's cheapest Michelin-starred meal.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

Fans line up at the crack of dawn for a slurpy bowl of deliciousness at this noodle counter inside a factory.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.