Building owners can take out tiles for free at this repository for historic building materials.

Every Saturday morning, this microbakery fills up with freshly baked pastries and sourdough breads.

A small museum dedicated to the history and design of German packaging.

Art deco landmark on the outskirts of Washington, D.C.

Stone markers on the campus of Gallaudet University commemorate a peculiar school tradition.

Organisms normally seen under a microscope decorate this church.

The world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

The French deconstructionist had a weakness for baked goods.

Everything in this two-story house—down to the mounted deer head on the wall—was carefully crafted from concrete.

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.

A commemorative plaque hides a door that leads down to the New York Public Library's underground book bunker.

The equator passes through this tiny island in the eastern Atlantic.

The site of the world's first modern seismometer.

This salt lake in South Australia features seasonal color changes and its very own loch monster.

When this clock strikes a certain time, puppets showcase a story of life in Edo Japan.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

This old school, eccentric, and independent video rental store refuses to die.

This remnant of an ancient Persian city is considered to be the world's largest single-span brick vault arch.

A natural arch carved by a river gave its name to the so-called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

This magical-looking island is notorious for the misfortunes suffered by its owners.

The "Black Arch" guards the entrance to the picturesque Glens of Antrim.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.