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.

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

A fake block of cheese remembers a feat of dairy engineering from the Chicago World's Fair.

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

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 22-million-year-old sandstone cave is a natural habitat for award-winning cheese.

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

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

An underwater restaurant, surrounded by a coral reef.

An eatery in a shallow river where diners can enjoy their meal mere feet from the base of an artificial waterfall.

This bakery sits on the site of the Black Panther Party's first headquarters.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

The Internet Age began with a transmission from this biker bar.

You feel like you're in a forest, but you're actually walking amidst the branches and trunks of a single giant tree.

Hub for hallucinogenic Amazon religion.

Queen of the waterlilies, so big and strong it can support the weight of a human.

Deep below the dry landscape of Bahia, a cave with intense blue water to float in.

One of the few places in the world where visitors can walk alongside fossilized tracks from 80 different dinosaur species.

The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.

World's largest open air theater spans 24 acres and hosts a massive recreation of the Passion of Christ.

A Tudor-style castle in Brazil holds one of the world's largest armory collections.