In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

This bakery and museum offers tours of the tastes and mythology of Aachen's signature spice biscuit—just don't ask for the recipe.

On a small Slovenian island, diners can mix and match a classic cake into dozens of sweet and savory flavor combinations.

P-town goes wild for the malassadas at this 87-year-old institution.

From grand battles to daily life, this Spanish museum offers a view of world history in miniature.

This 24-hour vending machine serves up homemade treats inspired by the local Japanese snow monkeys.

Pause for an afternoon fika with sublime Scandinavian cakes and pastries.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

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

The purported world's shortest international bridge connects a homeowner in Canada to his backyard in New York.

An actor's tribute to a former mentor.

Hidden in the garden of physicist Erwin Schrödinger's house is a life-size figure of a cat from his famous thought experiment.

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

A miniature beach in the middle of the desert.

Right angles in the forests of Panama.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

This iconic meat-and-three seasons every dish with ancestral cooking knowledge from South Carolina’s Lowcountry.

Visit a family-run restaurant that has been serving the epitome of soul food for more than seven decades.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

The world's largest bioluminescent area was undiscovered by science until 2005.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.