This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

The magic's in the hole!

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A relic of FDR's brief foray into utopian urban planning.

The stone marker that Mason and Dixon placed at the eastern end of the famous north-south border they surveyed.

Three abandoned missile silos are hiding in plain sight behind a suburban development in Maryland.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.