Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.

While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.

This bright yellow building is packed with sweet treats from all around the world, from chocolate-covered crickets to whoopie pies.

This mom-and-pop Japanese sweets shop has been serving cloud-light mochi for almost a century.

This shop also boasts some sweet memorabilia from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

How this Pine Barrens hill got its name is uncertain, but on a good day the view from the fire tower is crystal clear.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

A pub that is literally in the middle of nowhere, but continues to do business.

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.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

Built as a gift to the hottest tastemaker of the time, these hidden quarters remain an Art Deco showpiece.

At this snack-shack in the bucolic British countryside, you can still get a slice of socialism with your spot of tea.

The western face was supposedly left clock-less to snub the Welsh.

The dance of this huge clock is a magnificent and eerie commentary on good and evil in the history of humankind.

A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.

This tower is all that remains of a 19th-century schoolhouse that became a famous music venue before its destruction.