Ride aboard a centuries-year-old steam engine and explore dozens of trains parts, including an unusual "comboose."

This unique railroad museum secretly contains the history of Poland rebuilding itself from the inside-out.

Rusting railcars and locomotive equipment fill this Ethiopian train graveyard.

Strolling through these vintage locomotives offers a surprising amount of insight into the history of Kenya.

Train cars and railroad artifacts abound at this restaurant devoted to railway history.

At this monastery, monks make raw-milk cheese and use excess whey to create methane that powers their hot-water system.

An abandoned monastery sits on a far-off island in the Adriatic Sea.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

A gorgeous gilded tower houses what may be the world's largest collection of gin.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

An Ethiopian cloud forest protects some of the last wild arabica plants.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

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

At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years.

An English brewery transported to North Korea.

By night, this auto repair shop turns into a taquería serving up some of the city's finest al pastor tacos.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.