Places Elizabeth Gartley Wants to Go

The walls of a colonial-era fort encircle a small, tropical assortment of plant life.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

The village where the park and museum are located is also the third-biggest hatchery of dinosaurs discovered.

Maine's oldest diner also happens to win acclaim for its elevated comfort food.

After giving up Michelin glamour for his Amish faith, one chef now makes stellar sausages in a small, off-the-grid shop.

One of the few remaining monuments dedicated to South Boston's Irish heritage.

Hundreds of preserved dinosaur footprints can be found along a hiking trail in this small village.

This ancient oak plays host to carvings of magical elves, gnomes, witches, and other creatures prominent in local folklore.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

A restored historic movie theater is the perfect place for a regional film archive.

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

Largest institutional collection of tomb figures from Western Mexico in the United States.

Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.

The original movie set for the home of 'Star Wars' hero Luke Skywalker.

An abandoned film set location for a remote spaceport in a galaxy far, far away hides in the Tunisian desert.

A mural of a boy making a phone call connects a southern Maine community to a town in Iraq.

After surviving abandonment, this powerful Latin American mural is alive again.

A vast collection of rare, historical, and vintage supercomputers.

The first public library in the Americas has more than 45,000 books dating back to the 15th century.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.