Places Auros Harman Wants to Go

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

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.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

Peer into this window for an interesting glimpse into the public utilities that make this city run.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

These pink granite water slides are the result of millions of years of erosion.

The grounds and buildings of an old wood pulp mill have been transformed into an innovative art park and museum.

Grapes be damned, this distillery makes wine from apples, blueberries, cranberries, and more.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

A 19th-century mansion houses the largest collection of gin in the European Union.

Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

This Oaxacan restaurant serves native corn and Indigenous recipes.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

Deep vertical fissures like miniature slot canyons cut across the cemented volcanic rock of Black Point above Mono Lake.

Located in the world's highest-altitude Dark Sky Community, this observatory welcomes amateur and professional astronomers alike.

Catch a ride through the Pennsylvania countryside on this historic narrow-gauge railroad.

This harsh mountain path was built as a strange attempt to improve the health of Turkmen citizens.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

The longest non-mortared wall in the country is one man's tribute to his displaced Yuchi ancestor's five-year journey to her homeland.

A winding medieval path was used by mourners to carry their dead to the nearest church.

A series of 33 stone markers maps an ancient 55-mile transportation route.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.