Places ejbrown Wants to Go

After a traumatic encounter with a six-foot eel, one Galway baker started making a daily loaf of sourdough in its shape.

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

The discovery of an old wall led to the creation of this fascinating museum about the city in the Middle Ages.

This grisly exhibit houses skeletons and weapons from a devastating 14th-century clash.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

Head past the aisles of tropical fruit and imported candy at this bodega to discover a hidden, weekends-only taco stand.

Find regional specialties from the Thai-Laotian border inside in a North Hollywood swap meet's food court.

Mexico City's largest market contains a Willy Wonka-esque wonderland.

This one-window stand has been home to a giant vat of slowly simmering meats and an array of unique tacos for almost 50 years.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

A pub that is literally in the middle of nowhere, but continues to do business.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

A tribute to the intrepid explorer and his crew who perished in terrible conditions on an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

The remains of the left arm of the levitating philosopher-saint are kept in a 13th-century Neapolitan basilica.

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.

One of the world's oldest trees comes with a Welsh legend intertwining it with a spirit prophesying death.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

Amid the clacking of snooker balls, diners tuck into fiery Bhutanese fare.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.