A charming, homemade vending machine dispenses burgers and sandwiches at this hole-in-the-wall bakery.

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

A Caribbean chef recreates his enslaved great-great-grandmother's dishes inside the home she purchased after buying her freedom.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

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

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

Hitch a boat ride to dine on stilts while watching wildlife.

Chef Lawrence West serves up Indian tacos, wojapi, and other Lakota dishes at the brick-and-mortar incarnation of his popular food truck.

This small condiment museum makes all manner of mustards with a 200-year-old mill.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

The city of Halifax still bears the scars of the largest explosion prior to the atomic bomb.

This bird-shaped rock formation defies gravity, time, and classification.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."