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

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

From working out of his garage to the James Beard semifinals, one Tucson baker has kept his fan base—and his grains—local.

Maine's oldest diner also happens to win acclaim for its elevated comfort food.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

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

Designed as a place for patients to take in the scenery, this tower has a dark history.

Dispersed across 45-acres, 39 structures house a massive collection celebrating American Folk Art.

The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

Play everything you see at a museum dedicated to a town's historic organ industry.

This historic folk museum celebrates the attention to detail that makes America great.

This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.

This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.

A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.

An ancient glacial pothole waterfall in the heart of the Green Mountains.

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.

A gardener's enduring labor of love is spread throughout a small Vermont town.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.

After giving up Michelin glamour for his Amish faith, one chef now makes stellar sausages in a small, off-the-grid shop.