This peculiar lake of pitch is so thick and viscous that one can walk on its surface.

A 14-foot-tall Bigfoot statue stands guard over this café and filming location.

The house is an iconic pilgrimage site for fans of the Illinois-based emo band.

Dating back to the Pre-Roman Iron Age, this piece of bread is Europe's oldest surviving formed bakery product.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

Roots and stumps that lay inundated for two millennia are on display in Japan's city of three mysteries.

Order your phở stir-fried, sans soup.

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

This 317-ton walkable art installation is an homage to Korea's "City of Steel."

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.

One of the oldest art supply stores in the United States.

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

A monument to the groundbreaking environmentalist sits near the place where she first experienced the sea.

Two cannon-like cranes were installed on top of the bank building to fend off bad feng shui.

One of the largest and most scenic of Bangladesh's tea gardens.

Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.

Duluth mineral magnates built this charming art deco lodge to be their private clubhouse.

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

This mansion on an island off the coast of Georgia once belonged to a 108-year-old heiress.

A big museum full of little worlds.

A giant man-eating crab monster allegedly left its claw marks on this unassuming boulder.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

An impressive century-old, to-scale topographical map of Guatemala.