This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

The singer, actor, and activist lived here during his final years, and now it’s a museum dedicated to his legacy.

Amid the sprawling Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters is one of Washington's least accessible museums.

Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.

A Japanese temple, old German townhouses, and public chess tables offer a peaceful escape from the bustle of the North Side.

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

A temple belonging to the largest Buddhist order in South Korea nestled in the middle of New York City.

Stunningly detailed mosaics in a New York subway station bring life to the Weimaraners of artist William Wegman's work—and to thousands of commutes.

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.

A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

A pig barn converted into one of the most eclectic residences in Nantucket.

Everyone's favorite neighbor is remembered fondly in this small-town church.

This spiritual landmark for practicers of Shamanism is drenched in milk and vodka and covered in blue scarves.

The oldest Buddhist monastery in Mongolia has survived centuries of invasions, political shifts, and religious purges.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

The remains of this medieval Roman road and lookout towers dot the rugged coastline of southern Lazio.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

The Underground Railroad passed right through this historic Brooklyn Heights church.

A striped 12th-century basilica sits in the countryside of Sardinia.