It's rare that a restaurant can trace its lineage all the way back to 1868, but that's the case at Bode's Corned Beef House. The landmark structure has seen more presidential terms than the grandest of grand pappies, charting its origins to The Bode Hotel, which specialized in serving food and drinks to rough-and-tumble railroad men. Since then, it's served as a music school, boarding home, and Nazarene church before finally settling as a home-style restaurant.

Though times have changed, everything on the expansive menu is still homemade. Guests can pop into the white-brick eatery for corned beef hash and bacon-wrapped, honey mustard-glazed meatloaf that sticks to your ribs and the anything else if you throw it hard enough. And dessert is more than just an afterthought at Bode's, with items including homemade apple strudel and pumpkin pie.