Places Clur Wants to Go

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

Find regional specialties from the Thai-Laotian border inside in a North Hollywood swap meet's food court.

One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.

More than 3,200 cookie jars line the walls and shelves of this little shop and over 1,000 salt and pepper shakers

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

Follow the path behind this treat-slinging camper van to a sculpture garden in the forest.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

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

One of the last remaining buildings from one of Calgary's earliest businesses.

Eat first, shop later at this eatery within an Asian grocer.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

A giant milk bottle from the 1930s beckons drivers to this diner.

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

A classically trained chef makes beloved burritos inside a gas station.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

If it feels like a speakeasy, that’s because it probably was one.

Shop while you wait for a table in this tiny Indonesian eatery within a mini-mart.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

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.

This pirate-broadcasting-tower-turned-restaurant played a rebellious role in the history of Dutch television.

This bar is home to what's likely the oldest living jazz band in the world.

This century-old confectioner's outlet store was plucked right out of the Seattle World's Fair.

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

For roadside fast food, pull over at the giant orange.