An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

A museum dedicated to the Spanish occult in a town that was terrorized by the Inquisition.

Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Colorful umbrella-covered trees in Singapore's Little India look straight out of Dr. Seuss.

Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.

The large fjord lake is thought to be the home of "Ogopogo," a giant sea serpent.

An elegant chandelier hangs over this ancient sewer chamber, now open for concerts and public tours.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

The ruins on a deserted tropical island in the Philippines bear the scars of WWII.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

This modern arts center is built around a gem of late-Baroque architecture.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

A colorful statue honoring the local salmon in glass and bronze.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

Thanks to an acoustic anomaly, this unassuming stone bench has heard one hundred years of secrets.