The South American bean that looks like cotton candy and tastes like ice cream.

This butterscotch-flavored fruit has a way with desserts.

It looks like an exploding planet and tastes like sugarcane.

Brazil's spiky yellow fruit has lemon meringue–flavored insides.

The modest root vegetable makes a potent liquor in Wildschönau, Austria.

Immortalized by “Anne of Green Gables,” the drink is a must-try for lit lovers on Prince Edward Island.

Five producers in one English seaside town use historic chimneys to cold-smoke salmon and haddock overnight.

Floridians baked this tangy treat before key lime took over the state's pie scene.

Italians make a bloody delicious chocolate pudding.

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

These savory pastries come from Lithuania's Karaim minority.

This wild fruit helps man and beast survive long treks without water in the Kalahari desert.

Slice one open for some citrus caviar.

A crossbred table grape variety that tastes an awful lot like spun sugar.

It's nicknamed “yumberry” for a reason.

This tangy fruit flavors everything from ice cream to cocktails.

These absorbent stalks make perfect flavor sponges in Vietnamese cuisine.

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

This dark, rare fruit lasts a very long time.

The Japanese city of Kumamoto specializes in “cherry blossom meat.”

In a Romanian village, a cave's unique conditions produce a rare, funky cheese.

The rare, cave-aged Turkish cheese is one of the last vestiges of a dying cheese-making tradition.

The rare remaining bottles of the British Navy's rum rations can be yours for $1,000 each.

Ground nuts provide the base for this warm, caffeine-free drink.