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This beloved American snack was conceived by a hungry coal miner.

In 1863, a woman buried her hard-drinking husband beneath his beloved booze.

This beloved cheeseburger-slinging trailer holds Nashville's oldest beer license.

This iconic meat-and-three seasons every dish with ancestral cooking knowledge from South Carolina’s Lowcountry.

Chef Lawrence West serves up Indian tacos, wojapi, and other Lakota dishes at the brick-and-mortar incarnation of his popular food truck.

Proceeds from this colorful teahouse in a historic Atlanta neighborhood directly fund women’s education in northeast India.

Beside a lonely road winding into the hills overlooking Altadena, sits a portal that urges callers to embrace humanity‘s innermost expression: Goodbye

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Polish babkas, cheesecakes, and rose jelly-filled doughnuts are made fresh daily at this neighborhood stalwart.

One of the world's southernmost bars.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

This old-fashioned candy shop, ice cream parlor, and diner served as the setting for one of TV's most controversial series finales.

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

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

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

The last of a gourmet supermarket chain, this store helped spark California's Food Revolution.

Come for the bread-themed puppet show, stay for the buffet.

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

An eatery within the Minneapolis American Indian Center writes colonial ingredients out of the story of Native American cuisine.