This Christmas tree elixir kept Vikings and Captain Cook alive.

One small Portuguese town celebrates a saint with phallic cakes.

Portugal's volcanic archipelago is home to addictively sweet and chewy muffins.

A sandwich so decadent, it was once inappropriate for women to order one.

The secret to Romania's hangover-busting soup is tripe.

After rotating over hot coals, the Transylvanian treat unravels in a sweet spiral.

The traditional way to send a stream of wine straight to your mouth.

This herbal liqueur is produced by a Benedictine monastery in the Spanish wine region of La Rioja.

The fiery fruit brandy of the Balkans.

Cream, eggs, and pork drippings combine in the ultimate Serbian bread bowl.

Drooling over this nutty spiced dessert is a heretical move.

The world's most expensive cheese is made from Balkan donkey milk.

The sweet-and-sour soda almost disappeared with the collapse of communist rule in then-Czechoslovakia.

A beloved dish in ancient Rome, these rodents are now grilled or stewed in select Croatian and Slovenian restaurants.

A popular Slovenian fast-food joint doesn't specialize in beef.

The decadent pastry almost outshines the Slovenian lake it's named for.

These expensive and dangerous-to-harvest barnacles were once confused for goose eggs.

On the Andalusian coast, once-deadly tentacles become crispy delicacies.

These “holy bones” taste like heaven.

After dining on this fish, your next course might be 36 hours of hallucinations.

This is what happens when a bartender spices up a classic fisherman's coffee cocktail.

This Galician punch is set aflame to ward off evil spirits.

The original Cronut was named after a legendary acrobat's sneeze.

This Canary Islands' specialty upgrades coffee with layers of condensed milk and liqueur.