Places Caroline Thrift Wants to Go

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

From banquet hall to Masonic Lodge and now concert venue, Ganz Hall is a breathtaking glimpse of into the golden age of American architecture.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

With a history dating back to Victorian times, this architectural gem is a rare New York tourist haunt worth visiting.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

When the Cuban government seized a Trader Vic's franchise, they unknowingly led to its preservation.

"Polynesia on the Plains."

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

Keen eyes can find the Disney influences throughout this treasure trove of a tiki bar.

Feast on award-winning birria tacos from a food truck inside this neon robo-tiki bar.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

Abandoned for decades, trains still pass through the now-restored remains of one of Madrid's first metro stations.