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

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.

These ancient ruins hide in plain sight next to a dessert shop.

Legend says this remote, “bottomless” lake was created by a curse.

A refurbished locomotive from a bygone era in the middle of the Jordanian desert.

Made famous by "Star Wars," these troglodyte homes face an uncertain future.

This large pile of traveler-curated rocks by the dry lakebed is a longstanding tradition on the Old Mojave Road.

Once a major stop on the Hejaz Railway, this desert station (complete with steam locomotive) has been abandoned for decades.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

Eat like a bird in a bamboo nest.

A Caribbean chef recreates his enslaved great-great-grandmother's dishes inside the home she purchased after buying her freedom.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

This modernist cinema has survived war and reconstruction to become a symbol of Lebanon’s revolutionary spirit.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

The alley connecting two of country music’s most historic venues has a rich history of its own.

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

A semi-abandoned replica of Prince Edward Island's Avonlea—in Japan.

Fine dining 20 feet below the surface in the Indian Ocean.

A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

No one knows why ancient labyrinths were built on this tiny northern island.