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

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

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

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

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

Final resting place of the two women killed on a small island off the coast of New Hampshire.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

The statue of the famous elephant who was the original source of the word "jumbo".

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.

Croatia's towering concrete blossom grows from the site of a World War II concentration camp.

These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

This once-grandiose behemoth of a monument from the socialist era now sits quiet and closed up.

This local art collective supports contemporary artists through a coveted residency program.

Now home to a drinking establishment, this building has a macabre history.

This snack factory boasts several tributes to its popular line of rice crackers, including a quasi-shrine.

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

A bronze sculpture of a monkey sits outside this factory, which has made an anise-flavored liqueur for over 150 years.

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the coral reefs off Key Largo.

One of the best places in Florida to spot rare, carnivorous pitcher plants.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”