Places CaveVex Wants to Go

This diner's a kitschy dreamland for anyone whose heart is stuck in the 1980s.

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.'s LGBTQ community since the 1950s.

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

After a traumatic encounter with a six-foot eel, one Galway baker started making a daily loaf of sourdough in its shape.

This eatery transports diners to a place that no longer exists: East Germany.

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

This bar is filled with Star Wars merchandise from around the world, all of it unlicensed knockoffs.

A Swedish farm is the world's only producer of the rare, creamy delicacy that is moose cheese.

Enter the deli, walk until you hit the taxidermy, then order some hot, homey guisado.

One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

This ghost-town bar has bullet holes and plenty of stories lurking within its walls.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

This shop also boasts some sweet memorabilia from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

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

Once frequented by heavyweights of the Russian arts scene, this café is stuck in the 1800s.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

This bakery and museum offers tours of the tastes and mythology of Aachen's signature spice biscuit—just don't ask for the recipe.