These tiered rice paddies were carved into the hillsides 2,000 years ago.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

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

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 beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

This small roadside eatery exists in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, as the equator runs right through it.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

Rumored to have been frequented by Vincent van Gogh, it's the only remaining genever producer in the Hague.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement has been serving food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

Amid the clacking of snooker balls, diners tuck into fiery Bhutanese fare.

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

The only pub in the world surrounded by an ancient stone circle.

This tiny watering hole claims to have the smallest bar counter in Europe.

A Swedish farm is the world's only producer of the rare, creamy delicacy that is moose cheese.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

If it feels like a speakeasy, that’s because it probably was one.

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

Drink among marionettes at this pub inside a historic puppet theater.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

This small corner bar is home to a rare 1930s dance organ that still plays tunes for one Euro.