A statue honors the genius who allegedly first took a meatball and made it into a hamburger.

Built in the 1970s, this curious modular home found new life as a sundae-shaped ice cream stand.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

Found: Garden of Eden in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

A relic from a forgotten bakery chain still spins atop a diner.

From sax to spuds, get 'em all at this landmark music establishment.

A 22-million-year-old sandstone cave is a natural habitat for award-winning cheese.

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

Try your hand at old-fashioned coffee growing at this museum devoted to one of the world's most coveted beans.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

Easily overlooked in favor of the wineries that dot the region, this blast from the past is equally worth the visit.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

A secret door leads to this cozy dive that sells only “milk.”

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.

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

The only certified Trappist brewery outside of Europe hides in the central Massachusetts hills.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

The whiskey producer's archives includes a historical list of infractions committed by and associated penalties exacted upon employees.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

A bar, burger joint, and arcade housed in a late 19th-century church building.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

Sit where JFK proposed to Jackie or where Nixon dined on meatloaf at this storied pub.