Located in a Civil War era building, this café is engrained with the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

The oldest café in Montevideo preserves its history as the city's bohemian hub.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

This majestic building, where Brazil's coffee brokers once bought and sold beans, now houses a coffee museum.

Once frequented by heavyweights of the Russian arts scene, this café is stuck in the 1800s.

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

This “peasant café” in the middle of Tokyo re-creates the atmosphere of the Japanese countryside.

Step into a cartoon at this Seoul café that aims to evoke a two-dimensional scene.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

In the Hugging Tree Forest, lingonberry marshmallows, hot chocolates, and the best campfire lattes north of the Arctic Circle come to you.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

Remnants of the city's Soviet history hover over this modern fast-food outlet.

A KFC honors an eighth-century Chinese poet with holograms and verse.

Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

A lonely medieval monastery on an uninhabited island.

A "simple-hearted artist" turned an isolated Icelandic valley into his own art museum.