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

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

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

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

Drink a Guinness under the wings of Reagan's retired Air Force One in his presidential library.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

Stone monument honoring a town founder has a witch-boot shaped stain and a curse to go with it.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

A nesting ground for four of the world’s seven marine turtle species, most of which are endangered.

Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.

A South African bar inside a hollowed out 6,000-year-old Baobab.

An underground nightclub helped spark a "Singing Revolution."

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.

A dozen U.S. presidents have stayed at the historic resort, which was known as James Buchanan’s “Summer White House” from 1857-1861.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

The ruins of a Florida miracle spring resort make it seem like a wonder that this was ever a health spa.