Places Edited by Sam O'Brien

This UFO landing strip was created by a charitable Wyoming city that was worried about residents of Jupiter.

This little gallery is devoted to one small town's passion for a very special cheese.

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

This German museum devoted to the simple wonders of salt is actually built over an old saltworks.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

This remote eatery and museum is preserved as a time capsule of a small Icelandic fishing town.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

Local lore claims this park is named after a young woman who jumped off a cliff.

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

If you've ever wanted to learn about the history of Asian fish balls, this Taiwanese museum has you covered.

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

North America's oldest quarantine facility was built in response to Philadelphia's 1793 yellow fever outbreak.

Central Europe's largest collection of mini-bottles is on display at this museum devoted to a bitter Hungarian liquor.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

The history of whiskey and all of its boozy glory, from Colonial days to modern American cocktail culture.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.