Places Laura Andersen Wants to Go

The first privately-owned space capsule to orbit and land carried a secret payload: a wheel of Le Brouère.

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.

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

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

Little remains of the once flourishing Asbestos' asbestos mine.

The largest open-pit gold mine in Canada.

A reconstituted ancestral village of the Huron-Wendat Nation.

Extremely long cable tunnel buried under the river.

The roofless ruins of a church surrounded by acres of bucolic farmland.

Concrete pillars provide a beautiful canvas for Quebec City's graffiti artists.

This crumbling industrial fortress has attracted daredevils, filmmakers, and historians.

When World War II came to Canada, Fort Péninsule was part of the first line of defense for Allied shipping convoys.

This permanent exhibition of commercial signs aims to preserve the cultural heritage of the city.

This 17th-century house was once the trading hub for two prominent Canadian fur barons.

This memorial to a horrific ship collision sits over a mass grave holding dozens of the victims.

More than 50,000 gannets claim the cliffs of Bonaventure Island.

Immortalized in bronze, this frazzled student will be glued to his screen for centuries.

A patch of contaminated land reclaimed as a scrappy sculptural oasis.