These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

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

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

Over thousands of years, this slot canyon was carved out of the bed of an ancient lake.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

A monument to the conquistador became increasingly controversial in the very city that he founded.

The forgotten tomb of the Peruvian rubber baron who was the inspiration for Werner Herzog's epic film "Fitzcarraldo."

The retired vessel is South America's first floating museum.

The depictions of slaughter are surprisingly detailed at this mysterious ancient site.

Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.

This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

The remnants of Peoria's proud baseball past stand slightly abandoned, but not forgotten.

Found: Garden of Eden in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Taxidermy, Cigar Store Indians, A Model of a New York Tenement and Delicious Draft Root Beer.

Picturesque intersection of witchcraft and ancient Christianity.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.