Places cptnxanarchy Wants to Go

Welcome to a wonderland of Venezuelan empanadas.

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

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

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

The whole world is cooking in one Kissimmee parking lot.

This abandoned factory once produced Yugoslavia’s iconic Yugo automobile.

A remote one-room schoolhouse on Catalina Island, once a lifeline for local children, now abandoned.

This historic mill has been turning apples into delicious fresh cider for over a century.

This massive and complex stone tower is a great example of the many pre-historic nuraghes on the island.

An ancient burial site that lights up with the winter solstice.

Modest but unique pyramid built for a pharaoh has been reduced to a “heap of stone.”

This ambient art gallery and eatery housed in an old Filipino-style building serves local traditional food.

Tiny museum with unusual specimens.

An abandoned mining area now part of a gorgeous national park.

In Chicago, an empty relic of a time when neighborhood zoos were more common.

The only such mummy that remains accessible to the public.

Iguanas roam in a lagoon inside a volcanic crater that erupted more than 2200 years ago.

Hidden tunnels have sheltered the people of a Czech town for centuries.

In the desert of southern Peru is an intriguing collection of ancient petroglyphs whose origins remain unknown.

The oldest Egyptian obelisk still standing in its original site.

Inventive Sicilian specialties are executed with flair at this restaurant overseen by chef Ciccio Sultano.

Fried artichokes and other Roman–Jewish classics are executed with care at this no-frills cafeteria.

Roman-style pizza al taglio arrives here with magnificent, crackly crust.

Chef Leonardo Vignoli subtly updates Roman classics in a storied space.