Glengoyne Distillery offers a Master Blender course to individuals interested in learning how to blend Scotch. The course includes a tour of the distillery, scotch-blending sessions, and a tasting of the Glengoyne 17-year old Single Highland Malt. The class is taught in Glengoyne’s Sample Room,” whose walls are lined with sample bottles containing whiskies at different stages of maturation. Classes are held only on the last Saturday of every month, so book in advance.

For more information: Blend Scotch

Borello Travel and Tours sells four and eight-day tango immersion courses at the Mansion Dandi Royal, an early 20th century Art Nouveau home that is now a hotel, in Buenos Aires’s San Telmo neighborhood. Packages include a welcome reception with live bandoneon music and champagne, daily group tango lessons in the hotel, and entrance to "milongas" where locals dance the tango.

For more information: Tango Immersion Courses

This course takes place at the elephant camp at Anantara Resort Golden Triangle, near Chiang Rai, Thailand. Students are instructed by a qualified Thai mahout and English-speaking guide, and learn basic commands, daily care of an elephant, and how to mount an elephant—either up its side or by leap-frogging over its bowed head—among other other skills.

For more information: The Mahout Course

The last producer of the famous handmade pottery from the Dutch city of Delft offers a two-hour guided tour of its factory that includes a tile-painting workshop. A professional painter supervises the fun; the tile then is glazed and fired, and can be picked up or shipped in a few days.

For more information: Royal Delft

Viviani Destination Management runs a two-year “King of Grapes” program that takes place only in the fall. In the first year, participants visit a Napa Valley winery, hand-pick Cabernet Sauvignon grapes, destem them and begin the process of wine-making. In the second year, they return to Napa to blend their wine, which is then aged, bottled, corked and given a private label.

For more information: King of Grapes

Founded by master glass artisan and Tacoma native Dale Chihuly in 1971, the Pilchuck Glass School today has its own 54-acre campus nestled between the Cascade Mountains and Puget Sound, and offers five consecutive sessions of 17-day courses from May to September. (Chihuly does not teach but is on the school’s board.) For novice and experienced glass-blowers, these cover everything from kiln-casting and conceptual flame-working to Venetian glass-blowing and the making of mosaics.

For more information: Pilchuck Glass School

Valrhona’s Ecole du Grand Chocolat offers two courses for non-professional chocolate enthusiasts; one teaches you how to make chocolate cookies, ganache, mousse and cakes, while the other teaches you how to make chocolate candies, including truffles and  chocolate-covered sweets. Conducted in French and English, the courses are held at Valrhona’s headquarters in Tain l’Hermitage, near Lyon, France.

For more information: Grand Chocolat

Both the Casino de Monte-Carlo and the Sun Casino run gambling courses, the most exclusive of which is the former’s “super private initiation.” Offered in the evening, this course lasts two and a half hours and brings participants to the heart of the casino, the private Cabaret Salon. Games taught include European roulette, Punto Banco and blackjack.

For more information: Gambling Courses