Places Edited by Sam O'Brien

This restaurant is proud to be built atop a burial ground.

Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

This massive boulder is either a unique rock formation created by glacial melt or a magic energy vortex.

A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.

A condom-covered Thai restaurant that is more concerned with birth control than food.

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

A British pub embodies the spirit of a California legend.

A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

The Devil’s own choice when he needs a drink in Brussels.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

A big shiny gin and whiskey distillery in Sunset Park.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.

The cafe that acts as the social hub for the small volcanic island of HMS Bounty fame.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

A strange aquarium with stuffed fish, and almost no water for them to swim in.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

A pub that is literally in the middle of nowhere, but continues to do business.

Miles of man-made caves and tunnels are currently used for cultivating mushrooms.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.