Places elvenking42 Wants to Go

The extra platform at Gloucester Road has been used for art displays for over 25 years.

In this state repository of folk art, perhaps no piece is more representative than this brutal work featuring the town’s distinctive black clay pottery.

Chef Lisa Nelson serves up sensational doubles, jerk chicken, and other Trinidadian staples.

A 360-year-old cherry tree grows out of a granite boulder.

Crawfish hand pies, Natchitoches meat pies, and all manner of other sweet or savory, flaky-crusted pastries abound here.

An improbable set of attractive limestone caverns forms the centerpiece of Providence Mountains State Recreation Area, in the heart of the Mojave Desert.

Louisiana's first and only water buffalo farm makes exceptional cheeses.

First opened in 1939, this legendary performance venue was a haven for Black musicians including Ray Charles and Little Richard.

Built for a motel, this cartoon dino is now a symbol of the area's paleontological heritage.

This ship-shape Streamline Moderne building was once the headquarters of a nautically inclined radio preacher.

Here you can learn about an insect that was called "cactus blood," which trade turned immensely valuable as "red gold".

This Cistercian monastery was the first in the German-speaking world

This cha chaan teng’s pineapple buns are so sought-after that they sell 5,000 a day.

A grand Buddhist temple with Indian influences.

Jet fuel-powered flames lend dishes a pleasant char at one of the last of Hong Kong’s remaining streetside restaurants.

This bookstore for weird fiction doubles as Providence’s de facto center for information about H.P. Lovecraft.

A 10,000-square-foot museum of operating model trains.

This former courthouse is allegedly the site of the last witch trial in the United States.

Serve yourself from the heaping carts piled with bamboo steamers at what may be Hong Kong’s oldest dim sum parlor.

Gas station bathrooms adorned with one of the world’s most infamous typefaces, with quotes ranging from lewd to profound.

These 33 Zen Buddhist temples were built to protect the nearby castle.

Even Michelin-starred chefs are said to get their cleavers at this century-old shop.

A Greek-inspired memorial garden to commemorate a former university president and a liberal influential intellectual

An infamous former prison is now a biodiverse national park.