These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

An unusual house built using an iso-elastic membrane.

This unusual structure may be on its way to becoming a cultural landmark in Toronto.

A geometric jumble of homes.

There is a small island in the Gulf of Nicoya where the only human inhabitants are dead.

One Costa Rican island is so beset by illegal shark poachers that the local rangers have built an entire bridge with their confiscated gear .

Once the foundation for a mansion, these ruins now offer amazing panoramic coastal views.

This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.

Dakar is home to one of the oldest African art institutions in West Africa.

Massive series of 45 caves and over 51,000 sculptures carved from cliffsides in China.

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

This medieval "painted village" is famous for its geometric facades.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

Competitors race wooden replicas of pungent blue cheese.

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.

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 32-acre fun park dedicated to all things cheese.

An exotic jungle hideaway run entirely by indigenous Kichwa women.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

A lighthouse on this West Virginia lake started as a joke, then the forces of nature helped make it a reality.