A plain wooden seat that once belonged to one of the most prominent figures of the Protestant Reformation.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

One man built this massive wall to keep his neighbor from complaining about working on Sundays.

Visit the grave of America's most prominent paranormal investigators and self-proclaimed demonologists.

The middle finger of modernity.

This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

One of the oldest continually operated libraries in Kansas.

Owned by Native American women, this brewery is a celebration of indigenous culture in the American Southwest.

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

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

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Watch cheese-flipping robots in action at this factory and museum.

Visit a museum dedicated to the “the king of cheeses.”

At this Nashville restaurant, cheese and charcuterie arrive via conveyor belt.

Competitors race wooden replicas of pungent blue cheese.

The first privately-owned space capsule to orbit and land carried a secret payload: a wheel of Le Brouère.

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.

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

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

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.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.