This medieval cathedral houses stained-glass windows featuring saints and pretzels.

This surreal-looking tree pruned more than 1,000 years ago is still producing olives for oil.

After a terrible drought, townspeople used wine to build this church.

Continental Europe's only museum devoted to salt and pepper shakers features more than 20,000 designs.

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

Two dozen pinball games hidden away inside a most unlikely location.

The first high-tech company in the valley that actually worked with silicon devices.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

One of the world’s largest living advertisements is made out of pine trees.

The beloved dining spot stands at the cross-section of Hollywood and the Old West.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

The oldest café in Montevideo preserves its history as the city's bohemian hub.

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

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

This greenhouse was once a hockey arena.

The home for all things Kool-Aid offers everything except a chance to actually enjoy the drink.

For over 100 years, this Indiana town has had a tree growing out the top of the local courthouse.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

How would you like to dine in the same room where some of the Titanic's victims were embalmed?

A quirky and charming restaurant founded by artists.

Fans of the spicy bright-red sauce can tour where it's made.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.