Places anatolejolly Wants to Go

Of all the unique artifacts inside this library, a mummified hand stands out among the others.

The front of this 17th-century cottage also contains a large, stone face.

The way that light hits a stained glass window on a specific day is one of many "clues" to a mysterious treasure.

This pond in Victoria Park is rumored to be bottomless, one of several legends that surround it.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

A dozen cast iron leopards stand guard along the length of Aberdeen's Union Bridge.

This former Cyprus flight hub is now a crumbling, abandoned ghost complex.

Feast on some of the finest momos in all of Queens.

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

For true northern-style phở with broth as clear as consommé, hunt for this restaurant hidden within a residential home.

This time-honored eatery near Hoàn Kiếm Lake serves the classic pairing of rice vermicelli soup and savory sticky rice.

Slurp sesame noodles at the third-generation family-run establishment that invented them.

Chefs from Tibet's Kham region offer steaming meat pies and noodle soups in this nook behind a jewelry store.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Believed to be an execution site used by King Arthur after he was embarrassed.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

This museum showcases the art of ancient sword-making.

This work of engineering is imbued with elegance and ingeniousness.

One of the best-preserved ghost towns in Arizona speaks to the difficulties of establishing mining towns in the 19th century American West.

The farm where one of America's most famous folk artists created her paintings.