Places DBlock1001 Wants to Go

A giant gopher perched on top of a pint-sized Mexican restaurant pays tribute to classic roadside architecture

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

An elegant German-style resort overlooking the Potomoc River.

This iconic lounge is home to the longest running drag show in Philadelphia, iconic jazz trios, and is the birthplace to the infamous "Citywide."

Once part of a chain of over 80 restaurants that merged with another Mexican-American chain, it has been reborn in one of its original locations.

The oldest independent bottling plant in America was built directly over an ancient spring — and famously rejected Coca-Cola.

The Kansas City Barbecue restaurant also contains the original piano that was a central part of the famous "Great Balls of Fire" scene.

The Pickle Guys stand as a salt-stained holdout of the Lower East Side’s historic pushcart culture.

An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

Tucked away on Somerville Avenue is a curated mycological gallery.

A Provincetown shop that sells exactly one thing — a pink cupcake — and whose owner fought the town for the right to keep selling it.

This traditionally British fish and chip shop is one of the few that still cooks its products in a coal-fired range.

Where hand-pressed burgers meet low-flying planes — a 1950s drive-in shack at the end of an active runway in the Columbia River Gorge, with Mount Hood on one side and Mount Adams on the other.

An East German time capsule caters to nostalgic Germans and curious tourists.

A taste of the 15th century in the bustling heart of the modern Shinjuku City.

An old adobe structure first built in the 1890s is a desert watering hole plastered with dollar bills and odd West Texas finds.

One of Singapore's oldest Indian restaurants, specialising in Southern Indian cuisine.

Breakfast and lunch in a canteen where the servers and kitchen staff are prison inmates.

At this historic Huntington diner, a century of stories hovers over every booth.

A family-run store in an 1892 pharmacy still slings old-fashioned sodas.

This historic eatery pays tribute to the building’s earliest roots as a hardware store.