One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."

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

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The 1,000-year-old abbey is the birthplace of modern musical notation.

Historical etchings such as “Miserable, wild, distracted 1350" and “The Archdeacon is an ass.”

The medieval town's star-shaped walls are geometrically dazzling, though not entirely impenetrable.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

The colorful soil of Iran’s "Rainbow Island" attracts artists and nature lovers.

A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.

On the shores of Lake Superior, a small group of monks makes sacred sweets.

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

A gorgeous gilded tower houses what may be the world's largest collection of gin.

An Ethiopian cloud forest protects some of the last wild arabica plants.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

At this small shop off a dirt road in the forest, the specialty is eel the owner caught and smoked himself.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

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

For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.

Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.