A prime example of New Orleans' unique architecture these early 20th century homes were built to look like steamboats.

This colonial mining complex is now home to magnificent themed gardens.

Modern art meets modern convenience in possibly the world's most architecturally important public bathroom.

Learn to drink tea like an Estonian at this museum.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

This Costa Rican chapel is the most metal church in the world, literally.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

One person's lost luggage is another person's treasure.

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

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

This Quebec estate is home to the elaborate gardens of a self-taught horticulturist.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Come for the fish sundae, stay for the collection of Studio Ghibli cat buses.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

A 19th-century mansion houses the largest collection of gin in the European Union.