Meats & Animal Products
Stinking Bishop
The story of Britain's smelliest cheese involves monks, drunks, and endangered cows.
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Meats & Animal Products
The story of Britain's smelliest cheese involves monks, drunks, and endangered cows.
Binz, Germany
A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.
Denver, Colorado
A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.
Frederick, Maryland
This four-story steel sphere in Maryland was used to test biological weapons.
Dublin, Ireland
The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.
Chicago, Illinois
A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard.
Winkler County, Texas
Two massive and unstable sinkholes are yearning to unite, and their consummation could be catastrophic.
Göttingen, Germany
Home to the world’s oldest seismograph and a four-ton steel ball that makes its own earthquakes.
Bucharest, Romania
A celebration of all things tacky, garish, and bizarrely creative in the Romanian capital.
Killarney, Ontario
A long-abandoned provincial prison left to crumble in the frigid air of Ontario.
San Jose, California
It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.
Sweets
Sour green sweets commemorate a victorious Scottish skirmish of 1337.
New York, New York
A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.
Tintagel, England
It is said the legendary wizard once lived in this sea cave beneath Tintagel Castle.
Sweets
An unlikely pairing of honeycomb toffee and purple seaweed.
Food Festivals
A medieval food fight supposedly inspired this annual competition.
Prepared Foods
Baking this dual-layered bread is a difficult art.
Walker County, Georgia
The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.
Los Angeles, California
"The greatest unknown literary treasure in Los Angeles."
Tbilisi, Georgia
A small but hugely whimsical theater where marionettes play out the "The Battle of Stalingrad."
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
A World War II gun battery sits at the easternmost point of North America.
London, England
The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.
Kesennuma, Japan
Stone slabs along the coast warn of Japan's tsunami-ravaged past, often marking the highest point of a wave's reach.
Kuta, Indonesia
The wing of this deserted Boeing 737 almost touches the Dunkin' Donuts next door.