Places badgersofdoom Wants to Go

A plaque and memorabilia collection mark where A&W got its start.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

The oldest restaurant in Portland serves fiery coffee cocktails and an astounding amount of turkey.

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

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

This restaurant features Native American foods from across the country.

Step past the gas pumps and into a fine French bistro.

Taste freshly foraged yarrow and black locust blossoms at this ambitious cocktail bar.

Dine inside a giant caterpillar at this community-run eatery.

This bookstore serves recipes from the cookbooks on sale.

Explore the odd assortment of items that have washed up on the beaches of Plum Island.

An abandoned munitions storage facility with a rich architectural history.

An abandoned World War II bunker is part of a chain that runs throughout Washington.

This small, nautical gift shop is home to a 500-pound behemoth.

A Jurassic artscape composed of transmission casings and other mechanical parts.

This cemetery is one of the last remaining traces of a drowned old Western town.

Narrow gorges and deep pools created by long-ago glaciers.

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

A museum run by retired highway engineers who helped rebuild after the Great Hanshin Earthquake.

The exhibition explores the Icelandic city's Viking Age history.

In this small strip mall resides the largest collection of original art from the famed TV artist.

This massive metal sculpture in the shape of a folded paper airplane overlooks a Utah mountain.

No one knows exactly how deep the world’s deepest geothermal hot spring is.

Once the last route taken by condemned prisoners.