Places Edited by Andreas Rekdal

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

What happens when a chef with Indigenous roots takes over a hotel-restaurant?

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

The frozen bubbles that form on the icy surface of this Canadian lake contain enough methane to create a small explosion.

Enjoy egg rolls and live music in a converted bank vault.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

What better place to learn about the beautiful game than an actual soccer ball-shaped building?

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

The oldest tofu shop in the United States is a firm favorite with locals.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

This landmark jazz venue is the oldest continuously running African-American club in the United States. Currently undergoing renovations, it is set to reopen in late 2025.

This medieval cathedral houses stained-glass windows featuring saints and pretzels.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

Crop circles inspired this whimsical garden in Germany.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

Britain's only herd of free-ranging reindeer.

A tiny island is connected to the mainland by a private railway that residents travel in their own personal wagons.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.