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This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.