The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

This small town in the Netherlands has no roads but instead, miles of canals and over 100 bridges.

The former headquarters of history's oldest megacorporation.

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

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

An awe-inspiring mosque in Morocco with one of the tallest minarets in the world.

Morocco’s modern capital was once a haven for Barbary pirates, who went so far as to establish a republic of their own.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

Founded as a refugee camp, now a popular tourist spot.

Mosaics, storks, and brothels—this ancient city has it all.

The courtyard of this small Marinid madrasa is a dazzling example of intricate Islamic architecture.

Traditional 11th-century outdoor tannery.

The other side is actually green.

Thousands of narrow alleyways in an ancient medieval city make up what's believed to be the world's largest car-free urban zone.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.