Slurp sesame noodles at the third-generation family-run establishment that invented them.

The impeccably spiced roast pork buns at this bakery are worth the wait.

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

Could it have picked a better place to land?

The aggressively banal name of this underground fortress of bureaucracy does little to evoke its truly surreal existence.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

The oldest continually operating golf course in the United States.

Hidden in the hills of Western Pennsylvania lies one of the best-kept ghost towns in America that you can legally visit.

One of the last remaining structures built by a community of African Canadians in the 19th century.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.

Legend says this remote, “bottomless” lake was created by a curse.

Watch cheese-flipping robots in action at this factory and museum.

Visit a museum dedicated to the “the king of cheeses.”

Competitors race wooden replicas of pungent blue cheese.

Every year locals tumble 650 feet down to the bottom of the hill chasing a Double Gloucester cheese.

A simple tribute to the microscopic arachnid that gives its juices and its life to help make a speciality German cheese.

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

This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.

At this monastery, monks make raw-milk cheese and use excess whey to create methane that powers their hot-water system.