Sip “liquid cuisine” made with meat, vegetables, and insects.

The only Kurdish restaurant in Japan invites you to learn and feast.

Get to know the plant-based fare of Chinese Buddhist monks.

Ski or snowshoe your way to a feast in the mountains.

Washington's top-secret Cold War-era doomsday communications tower is located in a small neighborhood park.

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.

Get your cosplay on at Portland’s only Medieval fantasy-themed mead hall.

A 17-acre urban oasis featuring a pollinator garden, heritage trees, and an aerial tree walk.

This indoor-outdoor Portland market is an ode to the lesser-known corners of Latin America’s varied foodscape.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

An emporium of communication in Vitória's Old City.

See the computer’s history revealed over the course of 20,000 years.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

A magnificent menagerie of oddities, including taxidermy cryptids.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

After falling into disuse, this imposing department store found new life as a Hollywood backdrop and a theater.

Part shoe store, part sociopolitical art gallery, part zoo.

Definitely not a clown bar.

At an altitude of 3,700 meters, this is the highest polo field in the world.

Taste the precursor of peri-peri chicken at this restaurant just outside of Lisbon.

First established in 741, this is one of the oldest Taoist temples in China.

Just off I-55 in McLean, Illinois, is a place where you can play over 100 arcade and pinball machines for 25-75 cents a pop.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

The "Jade Museum" is full of thousands of intricately carved works of art made from various precious stones.