A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

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

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

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

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

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

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

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.

A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

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

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.