Places kari27ulrich Wants to Go

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.

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

A 32-acre fun park dedicated to all things cheese.

Outdoor art exhibition made of classic Tetris pieces.

Native Australian lizards inhabit this garden celebrating Sydney and its sister city in China.

The 10-foot-tall vegetables belong to Michigan’s first food rescue program.

A giant can of fruit cocktail is all that remains of what was once the world's largest cannery.

This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

For roadside fast food, pull over at the giant orange.

A giant concrete egg marks this Indiana town as the "Egg Basket of the Midwest."

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

The little tuxedo cat survived the trip, then languished in obscurity.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

This massive sycamore tree has been labeled as one of the largest in the state.

Many of the murals covering this sleepy Florida town hide some sort of intentional error.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.