Places Elizabeth Gartley Wants to Go

Sample sweets at an Art Nouveau candy shop that's been in business since 1874.

In the oldest zen temple stands a descendant of the very tree that introduced tea to Japanese culture.

A dinosaur-laden walking trail outside Singapore's Changi Airport.

See 150 million-year-old dinosaur tracks and bones dating back to the Jurassic period.

A beautifully-carved Pictish stone encased in a protective glass structure.

A park where people have been going to feed friendly pigeons since the 18th century

Rocky cove with large smashing waves tied to an important Samoan cultural story.

Carved between 3500 and 1000 B.C., the distinctive carvings at this site are poorly understood.

A residential service road transformed into a menagerie of larger-than-life paintings of iconic Arctic wildlife.

Provincetown's night owls flock to this 52-year-old pizza joint.

Visiting this grotto is symbolic of a spiritual journey into Nirvana.

This free museum is building a collection of books that are banned, censored or burnt around the world.

This hidden gem along the Utah-Arizona border is truly worth the rugged journey.

A stone monument acknowledging Scotland's right to have a separate Parliament from the one in Westminster.

This mesmerizing and surreal landscape features intricate patterns of white and red sandstone.

An art installation commemorates journalist Nellie Bly's undercover reporting inside a New York asylum.

Archaeologists believe this panel of petroglyphs depicting descending sheep and other figures in Glen Canyon are 3,000 to 6,000 years old.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

This historic pink parlor keeps Phoenicians cool with homemade, retro ice creams.

This love letter to Poland serves bracing dill pickle soup and plump pierogis.

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.

This Alaska library may be the only one in the country that allows you to check out pieces of taxidermy.

A former Tibetan monk made a name for himself selling some of the best beef momos in New York.

Jurassic Park in South Africa.