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Get to know the plant-based fare of Chinese Buddhist monks.

After several centuries as the home of coastal defenses, this island is full of history—and maybe ghosts.

The preserved wheel ruts of El Camino Real de los Tejas, an 18th-century Spanish colonial road across America's Southwest.

A multicolored mineral mound dribbles piping hot spring water right off the side of a highway.

A historic cavernous cistern lies hidden behind a wall at San Marino’s stamp and coin museum.

Royals, rebels, and artists have all conversed at this grand 19th-century Viennese coffee house.

Many of the most significant figures in American history once hopped on a stagecoach in this alleyway on their way to more noteworthy destinations.

In Indiana's first capital city of Corydon, the original State Capitol still stands among other historic buildings.

A memorial dedicated to the Tejano superstar Selena Quintanilla-Pérez.

Rocky outcrops containing overhangs, caves, fissures, clefts, and alcoves that invite exploration and scrambling.

The world’s oldest boat lift is also known in the United Kingdom as the "Cathedral of the Canals" and one of the "Seven Wonders of the Waterways."

The former mansion complex of a merchant prince, related to a famed filmmaker.

At this multicultural hub, refugee chefs serve the foods they miss most from home.

This remote Scottish cave has been a site of Christian pilgrimage for many centuries.

An improbable sinkhole in the sediments flanking the Beaver Dam Mountains.

A glimpse into life in 1830s Tokyo, back during the heyday of the Tokugawa shogunate.

This river ramp was once used by the elephants of a local circus.

Tulsa's historic skyscrapers define the oil boom era of Art Deco construction, and are known for their ornate arched lobbies.

A time capsule from 1934 Rhodesia, showing the grace and disgrace of a bygone era.

A curious art piece along a lovely biking trail marks several historic floods via a series of colorful poles that represent floodwater heights.

The location Geoffrey Chaucer and tale-telling pilgrims set off for Canterbury in April 1386.

The design of this seemingly translucent two-story tower in northwest Cambridge was inspired by an optical illusion.

This museum tells a lively, personal, and wide-ranging history of jazz music.

The 570-ton boulder that gave a New Jersey town its name.