Places Eleanor Walker Wants to Go

At this cozy bar tucked down a hidden Galway backroad, Guinness makes the Gaelic come out.

An unlikely hit, this museum is dedicated to the inventor of instant ramen and cup noodles.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

Tracking the 1,500-year history of Korea's star cabbage.

Hidden on a cobblestone street in Glasgow, a Czech Cajovna-inspired teahouse serves as a hangout for Bohemians.

This tiny museum immortalizes the birthplace of an iconic Chinese-Korean noodle dish.

Barbies stare from the walls, sit on the tables, and even pop out of cakes at this quirky cafe.

Buy your fish and have it cooked to order in this bustling, eight-floor seafood market.

Nestled amid the peaks and lochs of the Scottish Highlands, this inn and pub has played host to outlaws and ghosts.

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

This “peasant café” in the middle of Tokyo re-creates the atmosphere of the Japanese countryside.

Founded in 1880, this humble brewery still practices a disappearing technique of sake-making.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

A cool dive bar, off the beaten track.