Places Elizabeth Gartley Wants to Go

One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.

A fabulously bizarre surrealist sculpture by the late artist Leonora Carrington.

A Volkswagen Beetle decorated with millions of beads connects Mexico's past and future.

A grand entrance to one of the world's smallest Chinatowns.

Sunset Park's Guatemalan community knows to head to the back of this bodega for a taste of home.

A Mexico City subway station boasts a hidden museum, complete with a working radio booth.

At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years.

The realistic reptiles lurk along the side of a highway.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

Outside the National Dinosaur Museum, dozens of dinosaur statues and sculptures claim the landscape.

Dinosaurs invade a suburban Nashville neighborhood.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

Thousands of fossilized footprints speckle this Bolivian national park.

This museum is known as the "Land of the Dinosaurs," but its full-scale dino models are just the start.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement served food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

A collection of birdhouses await curious motorists and avian squatters.

Murals made with millions of colorful stones adorn the abandoned building.

The museum houses "the most studied meteorite in history," among other geological oddities.

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.