Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

This now-abandoned part of the original transcontinental railroad route provides a surreal driving and historical experience.

The oldest restaurant in Portland serves fiery coffee cocktails and an astounding amount of turkey.

Designed as a place for patients to take in the scenery, this tower has a dark history.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

The dishes at this restaurant by The Sioux Chef celebrate indigenous heritage.

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

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

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A progressive LGBTQ hub offers dancing, HIV testing, art, and more.

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

A strange history museum, with items accumulated by a pair of globe trotting spies.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

The residents at this Yellowstone wildlife park will certify your cooler as "bear-proof."