Places Edited by Sam O'Brien

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

This Singaporean food-court stall was home to the world's cheapest Michelin-starred meal.

One of the last remaining buildings from one of Calgary's earliest businesses.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

Eat first, shop later at this eatery within an Asian grocer.

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

Follow the path behind this treat-slinging camper van to a sculpture garden in the forest.

One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.

More than 3,200 cookie jars line the walls and shelves of this little shop and over 1,000 salt and pepper shakers

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.

A 19th-century mansion houses the largest collection of gin in the European Union.

Founded in 1880, this humble brewery still practices a disappearing technique of sake-making.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

One man's love for East Coast diner culture brought an entire eatery all the way from New Jersey to Colorado.

This French Canadian classic is a specialty of the oldest continually used church in Minneapolis.

In a small town outside Jerusalem, a roadside diner is devoted to all things Elvis Presley.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

This bar is filled with Star Wars merchandise from around the world, all of it unlicensed knockoffs.

A Swedish farm is the world's only producer of the rare, creamy delicacy that is moose cheese.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.

A restaurant with an extensive Irish whiskey bar also has several first editions of famous works by Irish authors.