Places Edited by Rachel Rummel

Venture outside of the city and into a family compound for a meal unlike any other.

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

This bottle-shaped monument pays tribute to the Appalachian drink that changed the pace of human life.

Though they look like Hobbit houses, these semi-underground stone structures were built for winemaking.

In the oldest zen temple stands a descendant of the very tree that introduced tea to Japanese culture.

Test your mettle against the hottest hot chicken in Nashville.

Slurp sesame noodles at the third-generation family-run establishment that invented them.

All of the Malaysian sweets at this shop are made daily with a whole lot of love.

Cooks at this tiny takeout spot grind their rice flour in a stone mill each morning for perfect cheung fun.

The impeccably spiced roast pork buns at this bakery are worth the wait.

A museum dedicated Germany's favorite drink and most well-known festival.

A Caribbean chef recreates his enslaved great-great-grandmother's dishes inside the home she purchased after buying her freedom.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

This sculpture commemorates the first instance of an American president pardoning a turkey.

In a quiet residential neighborhood, one restaurant fights to preserve heirloom corn, one tortilla at a time.

At this snack-shack in the bucolic British countryside, you can still get a slice of socialism with your spot of tea.

Flip your own pancakes in this old sugar mill within a Florida state park.

The oldest standing concrete bridge in England was also constructed as a work of art.

A former 16th-century monastery houses a museum dedicated to the island and its culture.

Native Australian lizards inhabit this garden celebrating Sydney and its sister city in China.

An ordinary lamppost situated in the middle of Cambridge has an unusual moniker and history.

The home of a formerly enslaved man who went on to become a prospector, entrepreneur, and activist for Black rights.

The social hall of this former factory is a Communist-era time capsule.