San Bernardino, California
Unofficial McDonald's Museum
This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.
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San Bernardino, California
This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.
Chicago, Illinois
What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.
Buckfastleigh, England
This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.
Việt Hưng, Vietnam
This tiny Vietnamese village is known for eating snakes and serving their still-beating hearts in shots of vodka.
Riverside, California
This California tree is the single source of the state's entire orange industry.
Norfolk, Virginia
This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.
Waterbury, Vermont
The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.
Ensenada, Mexico
A 19th-century Baja cantina that many say is the birthplace of the margarita.
New Haven, Connecticut
While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.
Martinsville, Illinois
Even with only two residents and one building, this tiny Illinois town is famous for its burgers.
Arcadia, Oklahoma
The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.
Nairobi, Kenya
Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.
Sierksdorf, Germany
A museum dedicated to the silliest fruit.
London, England
A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.
Hurricane, Utah
A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.
Boston, Massachusetts
A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.
Irwindale, California
Fans of the spicy bright-red sauce can tour where it's made.
Gordonsville, Virginia
This Virginia town has been famous for its fried chicken since the 19th century.
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
One of the few brewers in the U.S. experimenting with hop-free beers.
Riverside, California
The Citrus Variety Collection at UC Riverside contains two trees of each of the 1,000+ varieties of citrus.
College Township, Pennsylvania
This 19th century machine put animals (including humans) in boxes to study how they metabolized calories.
Jeffersonville, Indiana
This candy shop has been serving up sweets to the Louisville area since the 1850s.