One of the oldest wine cellars in Germany is now a restaurant beneath Bremen's town hall.

This fantastic cave remained unexplored until 1948 when three schoolboys discovered a hidden entrance.

Scattered monuments in the middle of the Sahara dedicated to the late Egyptian actor and desert explorer.

Putrefaction plateaus in Iran, where the dead were sent for decontamination before going to their final resting place.

Think you have a tough job? Try carrying 200 kilos through a cloud of sulfur down the side of a volcano.

This impressive clifftop temple was once at the center of an international custody dispute.

Temple of a million beers.

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

This walkway is so narrow it needs its own light to stop pedestrian traffic jams.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

In a quiet residential neighborhood, one restaurant fights to preserve heirloom corn, one tortilla at a time.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

Learn about the sweet, storied legacy of beekeeping in ancient Greece.

In the Hugging Tree Forest, lingonberry marshmallows, hot chocolates, and the best campfire lattes north of the Arctic Circle come to you.

An enormous roadside pan tells the story of a battle for pie glory.

With print dying, this local paper keeps the lights on by doubling as a stunning cafe and cocktail bar.

Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.

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

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

A colossal sculptural lion built by the same man who designed the Statue of Liberty.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

This smily stone feline is meant to represent a mythical lion that almost destroyed the island of Kea.

This generously endowed statue once stood guard outside a Roman home.