A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

A tiny cafe that recreates the Japanese elementary school lunch experience.

This isthmus in the Bahamas narrowly separates the roiling Atlantic from the cool Bight of Eleuthera.

A huge, bustling local market in Panama City.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

Turkish adventurer antiques in the heart of the Grand Bazaar.

The legendary luxury train passage is commemorated with a charming museum inside its former eastern terminus.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.