Places hfienberg Wants to Go

Movie buffs will love this Taiwanese director’s ode to film history.

This third-generation shop has been doling out bowls of tilapia soup since 1977.

German-style coffee and cake, just like Oma used to make it.

The best bagels in Berlin are tucked away in an independent bookstore.

Superb sweets await at the first Jewish bakery inducted into Berlin’s prestigious baker’s guild.

This small museum houses rare airplanes from aviation's golden age.

The "Key of Keys" for Washington, D.C. and the apocryphal landing place for the military campaign that started George Washington's career is now at the bottom of a well.

The legacy of a wealthy executive and his wife, this little-known art museum features works by Picasso, Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, and more.

Order a salt beef-loaded beigel at any hour of the day or night at this East End institution.

Order bagels and lox from an iconic Jewish delicatessen with nearly a century of history behind it.

A museum dedicated to Latvian history in the heart of Maryland.

The burial site of a murdered bishop and his alleged killers.

A Hell's Kitchen synagogue that has counted stars of stage and screen among its congregation.

Artist Natividad Sánchez wrote a new ending for one of Roman mythology's tragic love stories.

A brass and marble scale model of the solar system embedded in the concrete.

Both the building and blades of this reconstructed 19th-century windmill can turn in a breeze.

This historic oak tree has been around for over 300 years and might last for 300 more so long as it doesn't fall apart first.

This creative sculpture was a way to "recycle" an old tree.

Though it's unclear why it's there, the lifelike sculpture of the giant lizard is oddly charming.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

An author's private collection of quirky travel-trinkets and oddities has become a rotating mini-museum in the window of a local bookstore.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

Human skulls and a stuffed goat made into a rocking chair can be found at this strange little store.

These mysterious ruins are hidden amid this sleepy coastal city.