Places Edited by Rohini Chaki

Men and special assistants stand by the road to sell the day's catch in this lakeside village.

In the middle of one of South America's most historic walled cities lies a bar with an enormous collection of Soviet memorabilia.

The headquarters of a pioneering cast iron and cast aluminum cookware company is in ruins, but still standing.

This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.

This 1,700-pound edible sculpture is way better than your average chocolate mousse.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

All that remains of the once-booming chain is a single orange-roofed restaurant.

The oldest continuously-operating tavern in Wisconsin used a clever loophole to serve alcohol during Prohibition.

Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

The oldest tavern in Lowell has dedicated fans of its fan.

Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.

Amidst towering office buildings, a local pub lives inside Sheffield’s oldest surviving domestic building.

Drink and dine in a coral cave that's at least 120,000 years old.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.