Take an otherworldly journey in a school dedicated to out-of-body experiences.

The first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature came from the foothills of Appalachia.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

The oldest arched-covered bridge in Virginia has truly withstood the test of time.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

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

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

Cool down and fill up after visiting Teotihuacán at this bar and restaurant in a deep, underground cave.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

At this cozy bar tucked down a hidden Galway backroad, Guinness makes the Gaelic come out.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

The first ever diner included on the National Register of Historic Places is famous for its custard French toast.

Flip your own pancakes in this old sugar mill within a Florida state park.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

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

Exceptional Nepalese food can be found in a Texas gas station.

British troops and Prohibition couldn’t stop this spot from becoming one of the United States' oldest continuously-run taverns.

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

An eatery within the Minneapolis American Indian Center writes colonial ingredients out of the story of Native American cuisine.