Places bryanwoerner Wants to Go

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

After a traumatic encounter with a six-foot eel, one Galway baker started making a daily loaf of sourdough in its shape.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

This stately structure has been abandoned for half a century.

A monument stands at one of the starting lines of the Trans-Canada Highway, formerly the longest uninterrupted highway in the world.

This Turkish cave boasts some rather bizarre associations with the King of Mount Olympus.

A wonderfully eccentric Victorian-era museum and library.

A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

The mansion-like building is packed with Texas pride.

Sip coffee and talk politics at this landmark cafe in Astoria's Little Egypt, a contender for the title of America's first hookah bar.

Beer lovers thirsty for knowledge can now visit a museum devoted to the world's largest hop-growing region.

Surrounded by a smudge of dark earth, this isolated volcano sits in stark contrast to the surrounding Sahara.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

Flames have been burning within this mountain for more than 2,500 years.

This impressively large collection includes crackers shaped like Jimmy Carter, Mickey Mouse, and more.

A sprawling museum located on the former site of the Orphan Girl Mine.

A highland eco-park celebrates more than a thousand varieties of tuber.

A retired oil tanker now offering amazing views of New York City.

A well-preserved relic of the industrial age steel and iron works that dotted West Virginia.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

The last resting place of the famous Native American princess is marked by a haunting monument.

The ruins of an ancient temple to the Aztec wind god discovered in the middle of a metro station.