Try Taiwan's iconic Apple Bread—which traditionally contains no apples—at the bakery that invented it.
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Places to Eat & Drink
Taichung City, Taiwan
Liu's Bakery
Bern, Switzerland
Kornhauskeller Restaurant
Dining in this grain cellar feels like stepping onto a fantasy film set.
Fukuoka, Japan
Sanatorium - Wonder Museum Annex
A bizarre, tuberculosis sanatorium-themed café moonlighting as an underground art gallery.
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn Seltzer Museum
Try an original egg cream at this museum located inside one of the last surviving old-fashioned seltzer factories in America.
Food & Drink
Drinks
Nectar Soda
This pretty pink drink is a Cincinnati specialty.
Drinks
Tiquira
This violet-hued liquor is Brazil's oldest spirit.
Prepared Foods
Maultaschen
Legend has it that a monk hid meat in these dumplings to fool God.
Drinks
Pont
A town in East France still makes a beloved green-anise liquor born after the ban of absinthe.