This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

In the Scottish Highlands, this 13th-century castle ruin is hidden at the end of a farm track.

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.

This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.

A cool dive bar, off the beaten track.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.

Twisted trees shaped by coastal winds make this woodland look like something from a spooky story.

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

This dreamlike museum is filled with the works of an influential surrealist artist whose name you may have never heard.

Get past the gatekeeper's apartment and enter an elaborate hoax of a restaurant with a Masonic feel.

Hidden in the grounds of the Fort Dodge Museum is a "real" and terrifying petrified giant.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.

It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling.

The forgotten remnants of a land-to-sea cable car that was once unique in the world.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

Named after the German word for "a longingness to travel," this park brings together thousands of city and street signs from around the world.

The oldest active mini golf course in the U.S. has an elegant Art Deco style filled with lush tropical plants.

Accessible only by boat, this centuries-old island fort never saw troops or combat.

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