A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

Lebanese castle built by one man, over a lifetime.

A patchwork of ruins from various civilizations in one of the world's oldest continually inhabited cities.

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

A monumental underground karstic wonderland is also the water source for over a million citizens of Beirut.

The largest hewn stone in history.

After this one-of-a-kind palace was built the architect's hands are said to have been cut off to keep it that way.

This family-owned restaurant celebrates Native American cuisine.

A microbiologist-chef is slinging noodles with hyperlocal Nordic ingredients.

Dine inside a giant caterpillar at this community-run eatery.

Grab a latte at the birthplace of modern American skateboarding.

An open-air, roadside eatery celebrating a historic indigenous cuisine of complicated significance.

Hamissi Mamba and Nadia Nijimbere opened this community-minded restaurant serving dishes from their native Burundi.

Order cookies baked by cloistered nuns in a 400-year-old monastery.

This 400-year-old sweet shop serves a delicacy some have described as "edible incense."

Eat your way from Ghana to Myanmar on this globe-trotting menu.

The impeccably spiced roast pork buns at this bakery are worth the wait.

Cooks at this tiny takeout spot grind their rice flour in a stone mill each morning for perfect cheung fun.

All of the Malaysian sweets at this shop are made daily with a whole lot of love.

Slurp sesame noodles at the third-generation family-run establishment that invented them.

Home to some of the last true noodle artisans in New York.

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

One of the oldest family businesses in Reykjavík serves lamb-based hot dogs.