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This poured-concrete water reservoir is a gem of modernist architecture well-hidden in a city forest.

If you ever wanted to touch a medieval mercenary’s three testicles, look no further.

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.

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.

The cheese slicer may be a Norwegian invention, but the biggest ones in the world are found in Sweden.

A 22-million-year-old sandstone cave is a natural habitat for award-winning cheese.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

Little India's hidden gem of kindness and good food.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.

Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement served food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

It took an artist 20 years to create this sprawling sculpture garden honoring the area's ancient inhabitants.

The largest open-air contemporary art center in South America is a unique experience in the Atlantic Forest.

A palatial sculpture park was built illegally and in secret by a self-taught artist over 36 years.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

A curious art park at the geographic center of Europe is home to 3,000 television sets and other wonders.