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Have a heavy metal Christmas at this bizarre Turkish-American restaurant.

Luminaries from Albert Einstein to John Lennon once had a cup of coffee at Tokyo's oldest café.

Hidden in a Hollywood apartment, this restaurant takes diners on a gastronomic journey through West Africa.

Sample port and quinine-fortified wine at this fourth-generation winery near Porto.

Pay your respects to a country that only existed for a few weeks.

This haunted 17th-century pub was moved to a new city when it was already almost 300 years old.

Originally founded in 1654, this coffee house claims to be the oldest of its kind in Europe.

Try an original egg cream at this museum located inside one of the last surviving old-fashioned seltzer factories in America.

A bizarre, tuberculosis sanatorium-themed café moonlighting as an underground art gallery.

Try Taiwan's iconic Apple Bread—which traditionally contains no apples—at the bakery that invented it.

Polish babkas, cheesecakes, and rose jelly-filled doughnuts are made fresh daily at this neighborhood stalwart.

Get your meal delivered via pneumatic at this former post office.

Walls of VHS tapes adorn this Golden Gai B horror movie themed bar.

This century-old, family-run bakery specializes in loukoumades, a Greek doughnut once served to ancient Olympians.

Diners have been slurping 'fool's noodles' at this shop for more than 70 years.

Do you think your job stinks? Welcome to the only Limburger cheese plant in America.

Step past a rainbow of Oaxacan nightshades for a menu of regional moles worthy of weddings and funerals.

This bakery forgoes industrial wheat in favor of locally harvested grains.

Don’t be surprised if you run into some of Oaxaca’s top chefs in line at this family run taco stop.

Start your morning off with an epic food crawl in this market east of Oaxaca’s historic center.

Escape the city for a meal where deep-fried caterpillars, heirloom corn, and cult local mezcals shine.

Line up for a hickory-smoked BBQ bologna sandwich at this family-run institution.

For more than 75 years, this living piece of history has been serving exceptional soul food.

Steps from the site where Robert Johnson purportedly sold his soul to the Devil, you'll find this century-old barbecue joint.