Near this coastal cave stands a small memorial to the hermit who made it his home for three decades.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

The overgrown remains of one of the premier auto-racing speedways in the Midwest—and also one of the most deadly.

A missing Roman legion was recreated in sculpture along a Scottish cycling route.

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

This peaceful Sikh gurudwara serves around 50,000 free meals every day within its gilded walls.

Little India's hidden gem of kindness and good food.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.

Come for the chanting, stay for the monastical vegan buffet.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement has been serving food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

A spectacular but little-known slot canyon in extreme northern Nevada, with sheer walls nearly 500 feet high and a perennial stream.

A hidden slot canyon in the southern Nevada desert makes an unexpected oasis and scenic hike.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

An abandoned quarry hides an open-air gallery of huge sculptures, some made from the rubble of 9/11.

An Aztec temple, the largest man-made pyramid in the world, sits buried in earth with a Spanish church set on top.

Iron Age grave stones and Viking burials, a short drive from Gothenburg.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.