This rickety old shed hides a trove of secondhand literary treasures.

This charming, medieval walled village is Spain's first "book town."

With former lives as a bomb shelter and government parking lot, this shop is one of China’s most extraordinary locales for book-lovers.

Leaning shelves and books galore, this location is a book lover's utopia.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

Gargantuan pots of slow-cooked lamb, noodles, and red wine feed everyone at a Mallorcan harvest festival.

In this rare traditional factory, three generations of know-how, several strong cows, and a one-ton mortar come together to make Yogyakarta's famous "ugly noodles."

One of Kyoto's oldest food establishments has supplied soba noodles to temple priests and the Imperial Palace.

An unlikely hit, this museum is dedicated to the inventor of instant ramen and cup noodles.

This tiny museum immortalizes the birthplace of an iconic Chinese-Korean noodle dish.

Fans line up at the crack of dawn for a slurpy bowl of deliciousness at this noodle counter inside a factory.

It's beautiful, it's haunted and its claim to fame is that it's the oldest existing stone arch bridge in Australia.

Mysterious heaps of stones dot these otherworldly woods.

Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."

Twisted trees shaped by coastal winds make this woodland look like something from a spooky story.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

Nestled in an unassuming residential area, this "forbidden forest" is rumored to spirit away those who dare to enter.

A cliff-hanging restaurant.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.

A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.