Texas's oldest bakery serves authentic German pastries, including legendary strudel.

In Little Caribbean, an ice-cream shop serves up regional flavors, including soursop, Irish moss, and "greatnut."

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

This legendary dessert was served to Nobel laureates for decades.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

Narrowest house in Boston.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

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.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.

This seaside Scottish holiday rental lets you live out your bookselling dreams.

One of the largest collections of holy relics in the country.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

A monk-run winery inside a Buddhist temple celebrates Japan's crown grape varietal.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

Every Sunday, this Thai temple in Berkeley serves a backyard brunch.

The ancient heart of Tunis is an enormous maze of narrow streets and alleyways.

This is the house that spite built.

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

These sweets make convincing mimics of everything from fish balls to eggs to koi ponds.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.