Places BrianKayak Wants to Go

This authentic Fijian restaurant helps farmers and fishermen recover from natural disaster.

Find your state fair food favorites all year long.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

This now-abandoned part of the original transcontinental railroad route provides a surreal driving and historical experience.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

The United States' first transcontinental automobile road came to its end at this spot in San Francisco's Lincoln Park.

The precious-metals strikes dating back to the 1860s are now mostly inactive, but this area has become the United States' only domestic source of lithium.

A train tunnel that was made obsolete by the dam it helped create.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

You can row a boat through this ancient underground reservoir.

Get past the gatekeeper's apartment and enter an elaborate hoax of a restaurant with a Masonic feel.

Welcome to the world's only museum dedicated to the Ukranian Easter egg.

The pharmacy's retro ice cream mixer is one of the last of its kind.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

This French Canadian classic is a specialty of the oldest continually used church in Minneapolis.

This cafe offers a curated collection of treats and tipples made by monks and nuns.

A 115-year-old restored German dining hall awaits those who venture beneath the Minnesota State Capitol.

In one of the world's smallest countries, a royal's personal winery is open to the public.

Made from local Irish moss, this pie is served only in Prince Edward Island's potato museum.

A 200-year-old tavern challenges guests to finish a glass of wine while hanging from a ceiling beam.

Ask nicely, and stewards of a centuries-old charitable tradition will give you free bread and beer.