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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.

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

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

At this monastery, monks make raw-milk cheese and use excess whey to create methane that powers their hot-water system.

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 India's hidden gem of kindness and good food.

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

This peaceful Sikh gurudwara serves around 50,000 free meals every day within its gilded walls.

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.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

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

Come for the chanting, stay for the monastical vegan buffet.

A smug-looking cat representing an humorous Russian expletive.

This handsomely carved wooden church is more than 800 years old.

A grumpy old water goblin guarding an old mill on the Devil’s Stream in Prague.

The only natural cave bath in all of Europe.

One of the oldest structures in Helsinki is this burrow grave that dates back to the Bronze Age.

This wooden mosque is one of the few remnants of medieval Poland's Muslim Tatar community in this deeply Catholic country.

Learn the fine art of making a centuries-old treat at this hands-on food museum.