Come for the chanting, stay for the monastical vegan buffet.

Sculpture garden and miniature golf course blend together in the oversized backyard of a Minnesota sculptor.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.

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

Exceptional Nepalese food can be found in a Texas gas station.

A local dive where religious kitsch, Southern identity, and queer culture collide.

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

In the Hugging Tree Forest, lingonberry marshmallows, hot chocolates, and the best campfire lattes north of the Arctic Circle come to you.

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

For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

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

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

This colorful New Orleans bookstore features rare and used titles, with a specialty in Cajun fare.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

Martha's Vineyard's most beloved speakeasy sells late-night pastries.

A 1950s Googie burger stand is now a Los Angeles landmark.

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

A bar, burger joint, and arcade housed in a late 19th-century church building.

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