Places kaiaoverthemoon Wants to Go

The frozen treats at this Cape Town parlor are inspired by Africa's food cultures.

Don’t miss the local staple of rice vermicelli with charcoal-grilled pork patties and pork belly.

This restaurant features Native American foods from across the country.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

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

Legend has it fairies gathered at the site of this medieval castle.

Two gushing waterfalls of hot spring water within a block of each other.

Some of the oldest exposed rock formations in the United States.

Hiding behind a grocery store is a spectacular cavern carved as part of an old limestone quarry.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.

Home to a seasonal waterfall and swimming hole in the Ouachita Mountains.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

The Ryerss mansion in Burholme Park now houses a community library and a museum filled with a trove of oddities from around the world.

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

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

This biographical museum honors the groundbreaking scientist at her birthplace in Warsaw.

A local museum honors the overlooked discoveries of Mary Anning, one of the first professional fossil hunters.

At an estimated 3,800 years old, this olive tree is one of the oldest on earth.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

Deep in the Guatemalan jungle stands an ancient pyramid that once marked the reign of a king.