On the shores of Lake Superior, a small group of monks makes sacred sweets.

A monument to one of the few Olympic flames ever to be lit outside of the host city.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

The entire history of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program is painted on an enormous roadside water tank.

An underground passage is home to a guillotine that predates the French Revolution by more than two centuries.

Check out the 125-pound chocolate reindeer in the back of this candy shop.

Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

A boulder so big and tough, they had to turn it into a landmark.

Climb to the top of its spiral spire for spectacular views of Copenhagen.

Climb this overlooked gem's spiral staircase and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views of Glasgow.

The sophisticated hydraulic system of the Nazca civilization.

The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.