Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.

Come for the chanting, stay for the monastical vegan buffet.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement has been serving food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This eclectic collection documents the wild legacies of "America's Wickedest Street."

Curios, scientific antiques, oddities for sale.

When zealous marijuana enthusiasts kept stealing the "Mile 420" highway marker, the State of Colorado got creative.

A museum of natural history, Edwin Carter's original log cabin home and workshop houses taxidermy specimens.

This 19th-century ranch is being transformed into a residential library with thousands of books about the natural world.

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

The home of a formerly enslaved man who went on to become a prospector, entrepreneur, and activist for Black rights.

A museum dedicated to the mysterious cryptid.

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.

According to local legend, a tree grew from the stake that killed this alleged vampire. In reality, he probably died from influenza.

A prehistoric rock shelter that's literally in someone's backyard.

Hidden beyond a kitschy giant beetle is this remarkably sprawling collection of preserved insects.

While comics are the main attraction at this megastore, the second floor plays host to an exhibit fit for a museum.

A mental health hospital dating back more than 139 years, now features a museum.