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Meat and seafood are part of the frozen dessert flavors available at these legendary street stands.

The pharmacy's retro ice cream mixer is one of the last of its kind.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

Built in the 1970s, this curious modular home found new life as a sundae-shaped ice cream stand.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

This legendary dessert was served to Nobel laureates for decades.

The frozen treats at this Cape Town parlor are inspired by Africa's food cultures.

An Italian vineyard invites religious pilgrims to stop by 24/7 to get their drink on, for free.

You haven’t properly toured a winery until you’ve slept in an actual wine barrel.

This medieval wine press is one of the oldest in Cyprus.

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

This solo operation offers the world's only whey wines in flavors such as chocolate-orange.

North America's first Indigenous-owned winery is located within Canada's only desert-like ecosystem.

Aged nearly 1,700 years, the world's oldest bottle of wine is probably still drinkable.

Seventy-five miles of limestone caves host more than a million bottles of wine beneath a sleepy Moldovan town.

A monk-run winery inside a Buddhist temple celebrates Japan's crown grape varietal.

A 2,000-year-old wine press hidden in an overlooked park in Tel Aviv.

These beautiful wineries were at the center of Lake Erie's "grape belt" back when the Midwest dominated American wine production.

In the middle of downtown Brooklyn lies a 165 year old secret hidden right below the surface (closed to the public indefinitely).

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

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

On a small Slovenian island, diners can mix and match a classic cake into dozens of sweet and savory flavor combinations.

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

This Jewish bakery, among the last in the region, sells legendary sweets from a century-old storefront.