The world's longest outdoor escalator takes visitors to the top of China's largest dam and is also shaped like a dragon.

A Serbian monument to plums.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

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

The cheese slicer may be a Norwegian invention, but the biggest ones in the world are found in Sweden.

At this 1940s-era neighborhood favorite, you can still drink a cherry phosphate.

This Michelin-starred restaurant sheds light on a rare period of cultural and culinary tolerance in Cordoba’s past.

Hitch a boat ride to dine on stilts while watching wildlife.

A total of 999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

The Kaveri River cuts through the rocky terrain then drops off to form these misty falls.

This diminutive yet beautiful local stepwell once yielded enough water to irrigate the lush fields of the village.

This reserve is the only place in the world where you can see the Barasingha swamp deer in the wild.

A towering work of stone and philosophy that was constructed using ancient Hindu science.

Legend has it a commoner volunteered to be buried alive in the foundation so that the great fortress could be built.

The beautiful 16th-century stepwell lies in the shadow of a famous fortress.

This rare basalt crater lake is used to study the Moon and Mars.

This 16th-century mosque is the hallmark of the African architectural legacy in India.

At this sweet shop, the descendants of a royal chef serve up the fudge-like dessert his ancestor invented for a king.

The world's largest banyan tree is followed by a community of worshippers.

This beautiful 16th-century necropolis marks an astonishing feat in heritage conservation.

Time has stopped at the house where Gandhi died.