The Baccarat Hotel in New York City has an ultraexclusive bar known for serving incredibly expensive cocktails. Its famous $5,000 cocktail features a 100-year-old Chartreuse, a gold-covered cherry, saffron, and more super luxurious ingredients. But what i...

A kilogram of jasmine oil can cost $5,000. But to get that small amount of oil, harvesters need to handpick over 5,000 jasmine buds. Once the flower blooms, producers in India quickly process it into one of the priciest absolute oils in the world. Today,...

When a movie or TV show wants to film an action that it never could with a real animal, special effects artists have to come up with a convincing fake version. Thanks to the special effects artists at MastersFX, “The Boys” season three created several inf...

Every year, 650 million kilos of Gouda cheese is produced in the Netherlands. Most of it is produced industrially, using pasteurized milk, but there are 280 farmers across the country still making raw-milk boerenkaas, or farmer's cheese. And there are onl...

INSIDER duo Harry Kersh and Ju Shardlow travel across the streets of London to find the best of the best fish and chip serving in the city. The restaurants we visit have received several accolades, with one even being named the best restaurant in the whol...

Every summer, Isabella, her mother, Dina, and her daughter, Federica, honor the family tradition and make tomato sauce in their garden. The process is a laborious one that takes several hours, from handpicking each tomato to adding basil leaves into jars...

2020 presented Hollywood with plenty of challenges, but it also brought its own set of breakthroughs in the world of special effects. Here's a glimpse behind the scenes of 14 movies that featured imaginative animation, digital wizardry, lifelike practical...

The opening action sequence of "No Time To Die" finds James Bond racing through the streets of Matera, Italy. Special effects supervisor Chris Corbould, who has worked on 007 classics like "GoldenEye" and "Skyfall," explains how the crew loaded the Aston...

When watching 2022's "Spider-Man: No Way Home" or "Uncharted," viewers might leave the theater wondering, "Does Tom Holland do his own stunts?" The answer is yes, often. The actor does work with stunt doubles, but his gymnast and dancing background gives...

All'Antico Vinaio is a must-try when visiting Florence. The shop is in the heart of the city center, just minutes away from Piazza della Signoria. Sandwiches are made with a local bread called schiacciata. The shop has an endless selection of cold cuts, c...

"Fast & Furious 9," set for a 2021 release, is the 10th installment in a franchise known for pushing the boundaries of car chases. But there has been a lot of technological innovation leading up to this point that originated in classic films like “The...

More than 18,000 cases of monkeypox have been reported in 78 countries and the WHO says the outbreak represents a "public health emergency of international concern."

he UK military's chief survival instructor, John Hudson, looks at nine sea-based survival scenes from popular TV shows and movies and rates them based on realism. He looks at "All Is Lost" (2013), "Titanic" (1997), "Unbroken" (2014), "Adrift" (2018), "Ca...

A wheel of parmesan cheese can cost over $1,000. A single wheel takes at least one year to age, 131 gallons of milk to make, and it can only be made in a restricted area in northern Italy, in the region of Emilia Romagna. We visited a dairy in Parma, Ital...

The Gorgonzola industry is worth over $800 million. Almost 5 million wheels are produced each year and production is confined to the Italian regions of Piedmont and Lombardy.