Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

The collection of intricate sculptures includes one carved from a mammoth's tusk

Worm salt and other local ingredients are on the menu at this cult favorite ice cream shop.

The hot chocolate here all stems from small, sustainable microproducers in Chiapas and Tabasco.

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

The world's biggest version of the popular Swedish souvenir.

This bizarre residential building is the masterpiece of Von Jour Caux, the “Gaudí of Japan.”

Where royalty waits in the height of luxury.

A set of seven houses, each built in a style that represents a European country.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

Ruins of a German Castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

The world's tallest bridge is also possibly the most elegant.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

The home of one of California's most important horticulturalists wilts amidst a lovely park.

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.

A quiet country churchyard holds a monument to the last known sin-eater in England.

A unique collection of Swiss art brut and naïve art displayed in an old warehouse.

What this Good Friday parade lacks in baroque filigree it makes up in somber gothic imagery.

This famous writer's tombstone is a literary pilgrimage site that was publicly defiled by a rival.

An 11th-century fortress home to one of the most influential royal houses in medieval Europe.

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

Over 3km of caverns and caves at the Switzerland-France border contain the largest underground river in Central Europe.