Places DeepFriedDuck Wants to Go

The dishes at this restaurant by The Sioux Chef celebrate indigenous heritage.

The only restaurant serving indigenous foods from the Amazon.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

This unusual elevator doesn’t stop or slow down.

The ruins of an abandoned cemetery are among the last remnants of the old village of La Boulaye before a wealthy landowner had it relocated.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

An eccentric Victorian aristocrat's enormous collection of medieval armor and weapons from around the world.

A lesser-known sister to Paris's world-famous museum, located within a Buddhist sculpture paradise.

This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

This dreamlike museum is filled with the works of an influential surrealist artist whose name you may have never heard.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.

In the town of Åtvidaberg, the midday sun sets off a loud cannon boom.

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.

These mechanical goats first battled it out in the year 1551, all because of an overcooked deer.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.

An automaton perched above an classic clock and watch store

Ukraine's oldest operating pharmacy now offers guests a fascinating walk through apothecary history.

Get past the gatekeeper's apartment and enter an elaborate hoax of a restaurant with a Masonic feel.

In the Hugging Tree Forest, lingonberry marshmallows, hot chocolates, and the best campfire lattes north of the Arctic Circle come to you.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.