Places elvenking42 Wants to Go

One of the rare, saucer-shaped prefabricated homes designed by the Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in the 1960s.

A restored 1834 stone bank barn preserving the curious history of the natural ice trade.

A Norman-style castle, 1850s Irish cottage, and cultural center in the heart of Phoenix.

Ancient volcanic activity made this into an exciting rockhounding site.

A pan-Latin bistro where the world comes together over homemade sandwiches and a cup of coffee.

Come for the mofongo, stay for the Puerto Rican house party.

Costa Rican coffee and Venezuelan cuisine, made with painstaking attention to detail.

Welcome to a wonderland of Venezuelan empanadas.

Dominican cuisine like your grandma made it—but with teriyaki glazes and hand-rolled cigars.

Juicy Argentinian empanadas so good they’re worth a stain or two

This restaurant feels like a trip to the Dominican Republic—right down to the beer served in a hollowed-out drum.

Brazilian food with fresh ingredients, like basil snipped from a backyard garden

This 18th century Marathi fort is adorned with a spiked front gate meant to repel enemy elephants.

The whole world is cooking in one Kissimmee parking lot.

An eclectic Buddhist temple packed with pop-culture icons.

Rediscovered underground chapel is one of the best examples of Gothic architecture in Vienna.

Though Guinness took away its record, Romedenne’s 1998 wheelbarrow remains the biggest of them all.

Where the locals flock for the authentic flavors of Puerto Rico's pinchos.

This oceanfront cave was the site of a 17th-century massacre.

Cervantes’ Don Quixote lives on in mosaics at this La Mancha winery.

Vienna’s most overlooked celebrity is a Disney star.

Before construction of the famous Tintagel Castle, this site in Cornwall was likely a prosperous Dark Age trading port.

A habitable museum, or a time machine into Romania’s Communist era?

A collection of over 700 chess sets in a beautiful historic building.