In the travel section there's a page called "Top 10" which provides a variety of top 10 lists including "Top 10 Food Road Trips" (featuring the Vermont Cheese Trail, Pumpkin Patch Harvest Days in Pennsylvania and the best peaches in Georgia), Top 10 things to do in Japan, and top 10 elevator rides.
The great thing about these top 10 lists is that they integrate so many parts of the National Geographic Company. While you can definitely see the entire list and get information and a link for each place, the site also lets you know that its an excerpt from a National Geographic book. In addition, each list has a main photo attached to it which is almost always attributed to a National Geographic reader as a "Your Shot" photo. Like this one in the Top 10 Elevator Rides page.
The Top 10 list that most caught my eye though, was Top 10 Places for Chocolate. Happily, I've actually been to one of the places on the list! Max Brenner's in NYC is #3 on the list. I went to the one on Boylston St. in Boston, but I've heard from people who've been to both that they are practically identical. I had a three-part dessert: hot chocolate, chocolate cake, chocolate fondue. That was all in one dessert. And it was glorious. There's a place on the list called Chocolate and Churros in Madrid Spain that sounds incredible, but I think the next place I'll hit up on the list is another NYC location called Magnolia Bakery, which has actually been featured on Sex and the City and anywhere that's okayed by Carrie Bradshaw, is okay by me.
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