Places Edited by Sam O'Brien

Owned by Native American women, this brewery is a celebration of indigenous culture in the American Southwest.

Before it was buried by volcanic ash, this fast-food restaurant fed the hungry hordes of ancient Rome.

Baked in 1898 and still almost flawless, this floral masterpiece is considered the world's oldest complete wedding cake.

Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

Because sometimes you need to make a batch of frites even when the stores are all closed.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

This fine-dining restaurant features native New Zealand ingredients and Māori cooking.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years.

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

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

An Ethiopian cloud forest protects some of the last wild arabica plants.

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

A 1950s Googie burger stand is now a Los Angeles landmark.

A smoky doorway in Dakar leads to one of the city’s great communal eating experiences.

A charming, homemade vending machine dispenses burgers and sandwiches at this hole-in-the-wall bakery.

Hidden on the seventh floor of a historic building, this Cajun spot features wall-to-wall bottles of hot sauce.

The roof of one of the world’s largest spice markets provides a grand view over the neighborhood's glorious bustle.

A bronze sculpture of a monkey sits outside this factory, which has made an anise-flavored liqueur for over 150 years.

This snack factory boasts several tributes to its popular line of rice crackers, including a quasi-shrine.

This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era “champions.”