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.

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.

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

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

A 32-acre fun park dedicated to all things cheese.

A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.

Topeka has its own great wall, and it's covered in colorful images from the city's history.

Outdoor art exhibition made of classic Tetris pieces.

Native Australian lizards inhabit this garden celebrating Sydney and its sister city in China.

The 10-foot-tall vegetables belong to Michigan’s first food rescue program.

A giant can of fruit cocktail is all that remains of what was once the world's largest cannery.

This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

For roadside fast food, pull over at the giant orange.

This is one really big nut.

A giant concrete egg marks this Indiana town as the "Egg Basket of the Midwest."

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.