This supermarket offers shoppers a window into the past alongside their groceries.

This Michelin-starred restaurant sheds light on a rare period of cultural and culinary tolerance in Cordoba’s past.

With only one flight in and out a week, the unfenced runway at this small island's airport transforms into a seaside park for locals and visitors.

A building-sized painting of the renowned 19th-century American abolitionist.

Ado Awaye Mountain and the unique lake that sits near its peak are shrouded in ancient legends.

Each of these hand-painted wooden boxes, which date to between the 16th and 19th centuries, contains a genuine human skull.

This strange sculpture depicts a giant nightmare hare crushing a man to death beneath its colossal bulk.

The Jelgava Palace holds one of the few burial places of governor’s dynasties that is open to the public.

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

An ice field known for harboring an infamous Martian meteorite turned out to contain the oldest air on Earth.

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

A busy island at the center of the world that doesn’t actually exist.

A century-old church is now a space museum with a treasure trove of Soviet space items.

For just a few hours each morning, this market serves specialties from the city's shrinking Chinese-Indian community.

A Buddhist temple covered in intricate designs and carvings made out of seashells and pieces of coral.

An environmental art installation inspired by farmhouses and crop circles.

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in North America is built of concrete designed to last 1,000 years.

This dynamic entertainment venue brings a much-needed funkiness to the region with its bizarre art, eclectic films screenings, and peculiar performance pieces.

This restored farmhouse is a time capsule of a 19th-century Colorado homestead.

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.

The giant stump of the once towering cottonwood where Ute people held tribal meetings.

This massive home was constructed by one of the greatest conservationists in Colorado history.