A 200-year-old tavern challenges guests to finish a glass of wine while hanging from a ceiling beam.

This pub built its reputation pouring post-shift pints for employees of the cemetery with which it shares a wall.

The grandiose interior of this bar speaks to its past as home to famous jewelers and railway offices.

This tiny watering hole claims to have the smallest bar counter in Europe.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

This small corner bar is home to a rare 1930s dance organ that still plays tunes for one Euro.

This ghost-town bar has bullet holes and plenty of stories lurking within its walls.

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.

The Internet Age began with a transmission from this biker bar.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

This Michelin-starred restaurant sheds light on a rare period of cultural and culinary tolerance in Cordoba’s past.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

“Wagon Jobber" turned smokehouse magnate's family-owned business is still going strong 100 years later.

This waterfront museum in Maine is dedicated to the history of the smoked-herring trade.

At this small shop off a dirt road in the forest, the specialty is eel the owner caught and smoked himself.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

The Quapaw tribe supplies the meat and produce in this Oklahoma casino restaurant.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.