Chocolate has some powerful aficionados. The Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, co-creator of the universe and all death and rebirth, was such a superfan that he carried along a cacao tree when traveling from Paradise to Earth on his Morning Star beam. Willy Wonka and his army of Oompa Loompas could transform…

Legos seem to inspire something extremely clever and a little obsessive in certain people. These guys are the MacGyvers of the Lego world–you give them a bucket of plastic bricks, they create the Romanov summer palace of Djulber, complete with little lost princess Anastasia and an advancing counterrevolutionary battalion. Nowhere…

There’s a bit of voyeur in all of us. I’m not referring so much to some pervy desire to watch your neighbors with a telescope but rather a curiosity to see how other people occupy their space. This is particularly true when that space exemplifies over-the-top extravagance or truly fabulous…