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Every year locals tumble 650 feet down to the bottom of the hill chasing a Double Gloucester cheese.

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.

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.

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

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

This giant wooden treehouse within a sprawling garden has its own eatery.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

Not only does this shop sell mokorotlo, the traditional hat of Lesotho, the building is shaped like one.

Castro's communist ice cream mothership has been serving five-scoop "salads" for over 50 years.

An Ethiopian cloud forest protects some of the last wild arabica plants.

Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.

Baked in 1898 and still almost flawless, this floral masterpiece is considered the world's oldest complete wedding cake.

The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.

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

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

A relic from a forgotten bakery chain still spins atop a diner.