An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.

A macabre tour of Hollywood’s deadly history.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

This park contains one of the largest concentrations of cedar glades, a unique and rare ecosystem.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

One man's desire to transcend art led to the construction of this outsider chapel.

To the famous surrealist artist, liberty required two torches held high.

An architectural oddity of six stories, accessed by graceful ramps.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

Beautiful carved tunnels.

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.