Half-eaten food on display at an English café.

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

Whiskey lovers, this is your happy place.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

This huge stew pot is the focal point of the "Community Soup" event, which honors tradition and soup.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

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

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.

This tiny Vietnamese village is known for eating snakes and serving their still-beating hearts in shots of vodka.

This California tree is the single source of the state's entire orange industry.

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

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

A 19th-century Baja cantina that many say is the birthplace of the margarita.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

Even with only two residents and one building, this tiny Illinois town is famous for its burgers.

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

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.

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.

A museum dedicated to the silliest fruit.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.