Places cptnxanarchy Wants to Go

This atmospheric ruins are truly a sight to behold.

The ruins of the second-largest circus school in the world.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

This ambitious restaurant celebrates the culinary traditions of the Ozarks before 1870.

A settlement that was stopped in the middle of construction, leaving behind paved roads, curbs, light poles, a stormwater drainage system, and even a basketball court, but no houses.

Order a salt beef-loaded beigel at any hour of the day or night at this East End institution.

This third-generation institution is one of the last in London that still cures its own salt beef for epic sandwiches.

A century-old miner's quarters turned mansion.

Stock up on all your horror paraphernalia at this year-round Halloween emporium.

Pause for an afternoon fika with sublime Scandinavian cakes and pastries.

Historic seaside park featuring explorable, abandoned military structures.

Home to some of the last true noodle artisans in New York.

Palace, temple, and pyramid ruins mark the ancient Mesoamerican capital of Totonacapan.

Designed by famed 20th-century architect Cass Gilbert, the future of this abandoned 1908 rail station is currently in limbo.

Slurp sesame noodles at the third-generation family-run establishment that invented them.

Eat your way from Ghana to Myanmar on this globe-trotting menu.

Cooks at this tiny takeout spot grind their rice flour in a stone mill each morning for perfect cheung fun.

All of the Malaysian sweets at this shop are made daily with a whole lot of love.

Founded by a Basque immigrant, Mexico City's oldest bakery has a history dating back to 1870.

Shop for superb tortillas at this homage to the ancient art of nixtamalization.

The highest concentration of petroglyph sites in Gold Butte National Monument, plus an improbable early 20th-century dam.

Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.

Taste rums made with heirloom sugarcane on the distillery's own estate.

Order cookies baked by cloistered nuns in a 400-year-old monastery.