Places Clur Wants to Go

Ornate lobby of a police station is decorated with colorful murals by Augusto Giacometti.

One of the rare, saucer-shaped prefabricated homes designed by the Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in the 1960s.

A pan-Latin bistro where the world comes together over homemade sandwiches and a cup of coffee.

Dominican sushi rolls, served by “the Ninja” himself.

Costa Rican coffee and Venezuelan cuisine, made with painstaking attention to detail.

Welcome to a wonderland of Venezuelan empanadas.

A hidden yellow shack full of made-to-order Puerto Rican delights.

Juicy Argentinian empanadas so good they’re worth a stain or two

This restaurant feels like a trip to the Dominican Republic—right down to the beer served in a hollowed-out drum.

Dominican cuisine like your grandma made it—but with teriyaki glazes and hand-rolled cigars.

Brazilian food with fresh ingredients, like basil snipped from a backyard garden

This oceanfront cave was the site of a 17th-century massacre.

This statue commemorates the tale of the fisherman who captured a Kópakonan by stealing her skin while she was transformed as a woman.

A habitable museum, or a time machine into Romania’s Communist era?

A collection of over 700 chess sets in a beautiful historic building.

It’s a street without a name, but there is a sign.

Quirky bronze statue depicts the chaos of everyday life in Hong Kong.

A real haunted house with an extensive history going back to 1893.

A small museum tells how a group of Russian Mennonites ended up in the Paraguayan Chaco.

At these downtown crossings, pedestrian lights show axe-wielding Vikings instead of the usual walking figures.

This Hindu temple in suburban New Jersey is the largest in the United States and one of the largest in the world.

You can hear Buddhist prayers in this elevated sea cave once used by monks.

This monument commemorates NASA’s astronaut training in northern Iceland.

A mysterious stone staircase deep in the Swedish woods, said to have been made by trolls.