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.

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

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The bat-covered home of one of the world's most popular brands of rum is located on a tropical Art Deco campus.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

This small town's local tradition is to create the world's tallest ice pillar.

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

Everyone from Alan Ginsberg to The Rolling Stones has stopped by this classic dive bar.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

The Quapaw tribe supplies the meat and produce in this Oklahoma casino restaurant.

One person's lost luggage is another person's treasure.

Railroad officials in the early 1900s sought to spare travelers the sight of Roman soldiers’ private parts.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Old and brave breed of warhorses known for their elegant, curved ears.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

This 12-foot-tall T-rex is the largest K’Nex skeleton sculpture in the world.