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Rooster Cemetery.

Key West, Florida

Blue Heaven Rooster Cemetery

A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.

Permanently Closed

Coffee Pot Art Studio Gallery.

Lexington, Virginia

The Coffee Pot

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

C.K.G. Billings' infamous horse banquet was inspired by a love of all things equine.

The Gilded-Age Dinner Party That Featured 7 Courses and 32 Horses

C.K.G. Billings turned a Manhattan ballroom into a site for a banquet on horseback.

Anne Ewbank October 23, 2017

The abandoned galleon.

The Abandoned Galleon

The deserted pirate-themed restaurant still entices explorers.

The fountain as seen in 2005.

Frankfurt, Germany

Frau Rauscher Fountain

This German fountain of a legendary apple wine-loving drink thief will spit on you.

Permanently Closed

Los Angeles, California

Café Jack

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

Geysir Glíma Statue.

Geysir Glíma Restaurant

A restaurant devoted to "trouser grip" wrestling, an ancient form of Viking wrestling that is Iceland's national sport.

Union, Connecticut

Traveler Restaurant

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

Close-up of the McDonalds marquee with the Imperial eagle

Porto, Portugal

McDonald's Imperial

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

Antler chandelier plus interior of restaurant

Camp 18 Restaurant

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

The Mayflower Pub.

London, England

The Mayflower Pub

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

Photo of Frank E. Buttolph, c. 1917–21

The Woman Who Collected More Than 25,000 Menus

Her dream? To preserve the culinary history of the early 1900s.

Michael Waters August 4, 2017

Permanently Closed

Multiplication tables

Public School 972

A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

Automat on 977 Eighth Avenue in Manhattan, 1936.

The Anti-Waiter Sentiment That Made Automat Restaurants Go Mainstream

The "waiterless" restaurants that weren't.

Michael Waters July 21, 2017

Garbage Plate

Rochester, New York

Garbage Plates at Nick Tahou Hots

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

The Jail Café in Los Angeles, 1920.

Old Hollywood's Best Theme Restaurants Specialized in Abductions and Dungeons

In 1920s L.A., a fun dinner meant getting locked up.

Michael Waters June 7, 2017

The Middlegate Station roadhouse in Nevada has existed since the Pony Express era

Middlegate Station

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

The Absolutely Ridiculous Burger

Southgate, Michigan

Absolutely Ridiculous Burger

The world's largest commercially available hamburger is complete with 15 pounds of lettuce, 30 pounds of bacon, and 36 pounds of cheese.