This legendary dessert was served to Nobel laureates for decades.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

A cuddly version of a dark mythological creature now acts as the mascot of a town.

Flip your own pancakes in this old sugar mill within a Florida state park.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

A rare surviving Victorian greenhouse designed specifically to house giant water lilies.

Local legend says Isaac Newton built this footbridge without any screws, bolts, or nails.

The largest and best-preserved Roman amphitheater in Africa was designed to seat 35,000 people.

The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

This Arctic mining town is home to a cat that's spent years masquerading as a fox.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

Made from local Irish moss, this pie is served only in Prince Edward Island's potato museum.

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

You haven’t properly toured a winery until you’ve slept in an actual wine barrel.

This 17th-century pub once had a hole in its wall so the neighboring blacksmith could easily access beer.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.