To eat the world's rarest pasta, you must first complete a 20-mile pilgrimage.

This dark, rare fruit lasts a very long time.

This dark, sweet refresher was born at a now-defunct amusement park on the shores of Lake Erie.

These deep-fried dough daisies outlived the Fort Erie amusement park in which they were born.

Kentucky's melt-in-your-mouth treats date back to the 1800s.

Sandwiches stuffed with wine-and-cinnamon-spiced sausage have been a specialty of Michigan's Upper Peninsula since 1936.

This pulled chicken sandwich has a cult following in the Massachusetts towns of Methuen and Lawrence.

A Finnish city specializes in sausages housed in sugar-dusted doughnuts.

This unique soup of chicken drippings, vinegar, and cayenne pepper has been a Bradford, Tennessee, favorite for decades.

This velvety, vintage treat still has a fan base in Maryland.

There's a legend that this Latvian herbal liqueur saved an ailing Catherine the Great.

We can thank coconuts for this lesser-known tropical moonshine.

This hot-pink sweet treat that bears only a notional resemblance to poultry is a Canadian Christmastime staple.

This pollen-based candy comes from the marshes of southern Iraq.

In Inuit cultures, using the whole whale is an act of respect, including consuming its blubber and skin.

The sweet, spiraled pastries were once a staple on cold days in the American South.

In this summer phenomenon, fish swarm Alabama shores and waterfront residents scoop up the bounty.

Cooks in the Southern United States still whip up this spicy, seductively sweet condiment from the 1950s.

This Route 66 institution goes the extra mile for soda-based indulgence.

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

Recycling comes to dessert, with delicious outcomes.

This ricotta and marzipan pastry honors the Sicilian saint's most noteworthy body part.

This taste bud befuddler is a signature Baltimore sweet.

The lychee-looking fruit appears in everything from jam and liqueur to the Aeneid and Madrid's flag.