An inland seafood emporium makes more sense than you'd think.

Competitors race wooden replicas of pungent blue cheese.

The first privately-owned space capsule to orbit and land carried a secret payload: a wheel of Le Brouère.

Every year locals tumble 650 feet down to the bottom of the hill chasing a Double Gloucester cheese.

A simple tribute to the microscopic arachnid that gives its juices and its life to help make a speciality German cheese.

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

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

A fake block of cheese remembers a feat of dairy engineering from the Chicago World's Fair.

The cheese slicer may be a Norwegian invention, but the biggest ones in the world are found in Sweden.

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

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

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

The hot chocolate here all stems from small, sustainable microproducers in Chiapas and Tabasco.

Order “Proletariat’s Cutlet” at this communist-themed restaurant allegedly once visited by Lenin.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

The last standing example of an ancient district's teatime tradition.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

This old-school café is famous for serving coffee, chilaquiles, and the Cuban Revolution.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

This Jewish bakery, among the last in the region, sells legendary sweets from a century-old storefront.

The oldest candy store in the world has been selling traditional sweets since 1827.