At this Nashville restaurant, cheese and charcuterie arrive via conveyor belt.

After 400 years of being closed to the public, this monastery's underground tunnels and secret garden are now a museum.

This small museum inside a larger sports complex honors the first Native American to win an Olympic gold medal for the U.S., and his life of achievement and struggle.

A purr-fectly spirited bronze celebration of local street felines through history.

Instead of sermons, this church became home to millions of books.

This magnificent castle grew from a small Moorish fortress, and reportedly inspired two iconic Disney castles.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

This Alaskan town appoints the general store's resident feline as honorary mayor.

This national landmark is also home to a massive treehouse.

This site was a school and a center of Japanese-American life before internment.

A superb Paleo-Christian baptismal pool is preserved among the ruins of ancient Sufetula.

Blending modern art with Baroque architecture, this wondrous mosaic grotto serves as the late artist's final creation.

This Algerian sweet shop serves confections in an eye-popping array of hues.

A folk-art cottage and hotel straight from a Slavic fairy tale.

More than 10,000 small mirrors cover the curved surface of the world's second-largest solar oven, located in a remote village in Uzbekistan.

Next to a newer mosque in Khujand’s main square lies the city’s oldest mosque, whose interiors are spectacularly intricate.

A bustling bazaar with an elaborate facade in Central Asia’s underrated capital.

This unique wooden mosque resembling a Chinese pagoda was said to be built without the use of nails.

Stelae-eyed stones greet visitors to a corner of Kirov Park.

An outstanding piece of retro Sci-Fi architecture built into a sacred mountain.

The largest Lenin statue in Central Asia was moved to an empty field rather than being destroyed.

This was once the largest city in Kazakhstan, and a major stop on the Silk Road.

The sweet story of how American cargo planes became known as "Candy Bombers" during the Berlin Blockade.

This unique exhibit "Dialogue in the Dark" reverses roles as the visionless become guides and the sighted become ‘blind.’