At this coffee shop, each drink celebrates African-American history and luminaries.

This vanilla farm serves its crops at an on-site café.

An interactive museum and restaurant devoted to a prestigious breed of cattle.

Come for the fried chicken, stay for the history at Oklahoma's oldest bar.

Drink and learn at this striking ode to coffee culture and history.

This indoor-outdoor Portland market is an ode to the lesser-known corners of Latin America’s varied foodscape.

Worm salt and other local ingredients are on the menu at this cult favorite ice cream shop.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

Rome is now home to a stunning food museum and library.

Once home to some 250,000 volumes and priceless art artifacts, this Polish estate was a target of bombing during World War II.

A replica of a famous Greek statue adorns the front of the unusual home of architect and alchemist Humberto Pittamiglio.

Hidden among the trees at the Rangeley Lakes Trails Center are more than 20 gnomes in small wooden houses.

A unique collection of Western and Japanese-style graves.

This historic castle was already in ruins by the 13th century.

A colonial-era fort with panoramic views across the East Timor-West Timor border, now home to a hotel.

An 18th-century hideout became a permanent and ongoing residence for one Lesotho tribe.

This fancifully decorated Victorian home in New York’s Hudson Valley is the only known fully domed octagonal residence in the United States.

Though it won't take you far, the wood train housed at this station is the last of its kind in Japan.

This half-forgotten fortress was constructed by the Ottoman conqueror of Constantinople.

Mediterranean castle on a tiny Turkish island.

The deepest underground city in Turkey was designed to protect 20,000 people behind massive stone doors.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

Live a night as a Byzantine King, with a minibar and private jacuzzi.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.