A refugee returns to his homeland to open Ho Chi Minh City’s first Michelin-starred restaurant.

This collection of 20th-century toys is filled with a lifelong personal toy collection brought from the U.S. to Amsterdam.

These large-scale reproductions of Mario Sanchez’s colorful pictures and murals feel like a walk around a small movie set, and also lead you down an imaginary “street” of past decades.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

Visiting this grotto is symbolic of a spiritual journey into Nirvana.

This candy-pink cathedral of Da Nang is also known as the Chicken Church.

A giant silver apple a day keeps the perils of capitalism away.

This may be the world's only drive-through windmill.

One of the oldest structures in Helsinki is this burrow grave that dates back to the Bronze Age.

Built to supply water to farmers in Alberta, this was once was the world's longest elevated concrete structure.

A statue of an astronomer gazes at the sky as a tribute to Caroline Herschel.

Hidden behind an industrial area, this is one of the very few such transporter bridges in existence.

A rare specimen of an iconic extinct animal in downtown Sydney.

Two buildings named after their windows that make it look like a sea of television sets plastered to a wall.

Perhaps the only one of its kind, the nearly-forgotten site once held mortal (and rigged) gladiatorial games between tigers and imperial war elephants.

Recently celebrating its 25th anniversary, the garden opened in September 1997 to celebrate the men and women who have had the greatest impact on Key West.

A rare venue to buy specialty maps.

Soviet General Zhukov’s former home is a quiet spot amid the heavy traffic of Ulaanbaatar.

Ancient site of Mongolian Shamanism located near a road leading out of Ulaanbaatar.

Experience the magic (and science) of a camera with this giant structure that allows you to enter inside the camera.

This wooden mosque is one of the few remnants of medieval Poland's Muslim Tatar community in this deeply Catholic country.

The tallest waterfall in West Virginia.

This iconic meat-and-three seasons every dish with ancestral cooking knowledge from South Carolina’s Lowcountry.

The Catlins region has a bounty of breathtaking waterfalls, the best is arguably Koropuku Falls—a majestic waterfall with an enchanting bush walk.