More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.

On the shores of Kyrgyzstan's Issyk-Kul Lake, a family cooks a feast that tells the sad tale of a people's exile.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

One of Kyoto's oldest food establishments has supplied soba noodles to temple priests and the Imperial Palace.

With print dying, this local paper keeps the lights on by doubling as a stunning cafe and cocktail bar.

A smoky doorway in Dakar leads to one of the city’s great communal eating experiences.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

By night, this auto repair shop turns into a taquería serving up some of the city's finest al pastor tacos.

Texas's oldest bakery serves authentic German pastries, including legendary strudel.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

Owned by Native American women, this brewery is a celebration of indigenous culture in the American Southwest.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

This four-story steel sphere in Maryland was used to test biological weapons.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

This monument marks the beginning journey of a wounded soldier's leg that ended up almost two states away.

The Home and murder site of the witch of Rehmeyers Hollow.

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

Berkeley Hot Springs presents to you "the only outdoor monument to presidential bathing."

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

The home of possibly the least-loved U.S. president stands as a sort of unpopular Monticello.