Portugal's Silver Coast and the rest of the Centro region surrounding Nazare are home to almost undiscovered treasures that are unfairly ignored by tourists, who usually visit only Lisbon or the wine country around Oporto in the north of the country.
While tens of thousands of travelers head to Peru every year to see famous landmarks like Machu Picchu, the Sacred Valley, and Lima, one of the country's most beautiful and fascinating destinations goes almost completely overlooked by tourists.
A married couple from New Zealand may have grown the world's biggest potato without even trying.
With its narrow walkways, the constant rush of carts hauling goods in and out, and sashimi masters filling orders right on their cutting boards, Seoul's Noryangjin Fish Market is a worthy stop for adventurous foodies.
If Las Vegas can become a global culinary capital, why not Siem Reap? This town in western Cambodia, whose bright lights and big hotels are fueled by the steady flow of visitors to the ancient city of Angkor, now serves up an international medley of imported flavors and aromas in a rather freewheeling style.
Wherever you find yourself (in a humble kocsma packed with regulars nursing their beers, in a sleek cocktail hideaway, or in one of Budapest's quirky ruin pubs crammed with tourists), the drinking scene of the Hungarian capital shares one constant.
If the conversation used to stop at the infamous balut (a duck embryo), no thanks to shows like "Fear Factor", it has since moved on, with diners now talking up staples such as adobo, sisig, pancit, lumpia and lechon.
Where the sky ends, a giant lies sleeping, stretched out along a mountain ridge that looks over the Mediterranean Sea.
Bangkok's street food may be what draws in hungry visitors, but in recent years the city's fine dining scene has grown enormously, giving culinary travelers more reasons than ever to visit Thailand's capital.
Set in the impossibly turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean, the Maldives has become a luxury escape with no equal.
From Colombia to Kenya, many of the world's coffee-growing regions are among the most idyllic places on Earth.
Right when coffee shops all over the world had started to blur into the same hipster Williamsburg look, something completely different showed up.
To be fair, it doesn't actually taste bad: it's a lot like crab.
Like New Delhi, Mumbai is famous for its street food, known as "chaat", from the Hindi word chaatna, meaning "to lick". It is a fitting name, because these snacks really will have you licking your fingers.
