One of Kyoto's oldest food establishments has supplied soba noodles to temple priests and the Imperial Palace.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

Come for the fish sundae, stay for the collection of Studio Ghibli cat buses.

Sip whey-based vodka at the first Native-owned distillery opened on a reservation in centuries.

Existing for more than four centuries, the last of Hakone’s historic teahouses serves a sweet, mold-based rice drink.

An indigenous ethnobotanist runs this brunch spot celebrating Australia’s native flavors.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

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

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

A historic pub with traditional Irish cuisine, fine drinks, and a paranormal past.

At this desert restaurant, meals are cooked in solar ovens.

On East Burnside, a 24-hour vending machine distributes world-class pastries.

For a buck, students can snag freshly picked apples grown in the university orchards.

Come for the heirloom-corn whiskey, stay for the wood hats.

This Oaxacan restaurant serves native corn and Indigenous recipes.

This popular tourist cave was ignored for almost 200 years before being mined into an attraction.

An island made out of shells, including a cemetery.

The runoff from these fiery cliffs sends red water flowing into the sea.

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

A wild Hollywood resort thwarted by mosquitoes.

A notoriously corrupt Chief of Police's deteriorating Greek-themed playhouse.

Mexico's largest collection of masks is found in the ruins of an abandoned convent.