Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

This 700-year-old storehouse was a POW jail, aviation workshop, and Titanic memorial before becoming a brewpub.

Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.

The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.

Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.

In 2013, historians discovered a hidden room devoted to the art of making royals' hot chocolate.

Famed for its pie, this eatery has a hidden tunnel that allowed Catholics to secretly walk to church during the Reformation.

The only thing sweeter than the potatoes is the canine proprietor of this roadside stall.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

On the shores of Kyrgyzstan's Issyk-Kul Lake, a family cooks a feast that tells the sad tale of a people's exile.

At this cozy bar tucked down a hidden Galway backroad, Guinness makes the Gaelic come out.

Take Soviet nostalgia to new heights by toasting the first man in space over a full spread of Belarusian and Soviet fare.

Remnants of the city's Soviet history hover over this modern fast-food outlet.

In this medieval fish bowl, the carp weren't pets.

This restored 17th century synagogue is one of the few remaining structures in Morocco’s ruined Jewish quarters.

Built on a medieval synagogue, this church has a burial crypt, tunnel system, and Jewish ritual bath hiding deep underneath.

Spanish architects used seized Muslim gravestones to rebuild parts of the fortress.

A Portuguese Jewish cemetery filled with stunning grave monuments that date back to 1614.

The final resting place of more than 200,000 people, this is one of the largest cemeteries in Europe.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

Once home to artillery, this garden offers more peace today than it did during its war-torn past.

This almost a century old piece of architecture had been overlooked by most, except for the drunk and the homeless