This modern tandoor eatery was once a canteen for Soviet farmers.

Grab a latte at the birthplace of modern American skateboarding.

Sample Spanish wines under frescoes in a historic monastery of "barefoot old men."

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

Every Saturday morning, this microbakery fills up with freshly baked pastries and sourdough breads.

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

The second seat of Nye County, still mostly a ghost town, has become a magnet for those looking to live "away from it all."

Local history holds that a young woman, killed for a crime she did not commit, cursed this island.

This small memorial honors a ferocious feline and local hero.

These animal carvings stand as a representation of India and Britain.

After 800 years, Europe's oldest elm tree has met its end.

This work of engineering is imbued with elegance and ingeniousness.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

This island hill is strewn with boulders carved by shipwreck victims from the age of sail.

A sinkhole known simply as "The Hole."

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

The devil masks on display at this small museum are part of an annual festival that has been taking place for centuries.

Vermont's hills are alive with the sound of music at this historic hotel.

Several Iron Age artifacts were discovered during excavations of this ancient site.

A historic jail preserves etchings from over a century of incarcerated people in a town with a rough and tumble past.

Organisms normally seen under a microscope decorate this church.

Cut into a sheer cliff face, these stairs are the only way to reach a secluded Scottish harbor.

A whimsical roadside community of little metal people.

A series of colorful murals breathes new life into old grain silos in Spain.