One of the oldest restaurants in the Seychelles.

The last of the 19th-century booze-free bars has been slinging teetotal tonics for over a century.

This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.

This tiny Vietnamese village is known for eating snakes and serving their still-beating hearts in shots of vodka.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

This remote eatery and museum is preserved as a time capsule of a small Icelandic fishing town.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

This bar and museum are devoted to the controversial comic book work of Kája Saudek.

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

This Irish museum in a historic 19th century market pays tribute to the glory of butter.

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.

Marvel at this turn-of-the-century masterpiece that has been turned into a rather stately supermarket.

Even with only two residents and one building, this tiny Illinois town is famous for its burgers.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

A huge, bustling local market in Panama City.