The former home of queer novelist Yoshiya Nobuko memorializes her contributions to modern-day manga.

Hitch a boat ride to dine on stilts while watching wildlife.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

This frog-themed restaurant was frequented by Picasso, Saint-Exupéry, and more.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

At the point of oceanic inaccessibility, you can't get farther from dry land without leaving the planet.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

An early Korean refrigerator.

An on-site urban farm and fish pond supply some of the produce for this upscale restaurant.

This Jewish bakery, among the last in the region, sells legendary sweets from a century-old storefront.

Meat and seafood are part of the frozen dessert flavors available at these legendary street stands.

Atop the former site of a historic bakery sit two stone tributes to Verona's contribution to traditional Italian baking.

Learn about the sweet, storied legacy of beekeeping in ancient Greece.

One of the oldest continuously-operated gay bars in the United States is allegedly haunted by Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.

A small Wyoming town is home to the state's oldest-operating soda fountain.

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

Existing for more than four centuries, the last of Hakone’s historic teahouses serves a sweet, mold-based rice drink.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.