Places Himanshu Wants to Go

The longest step street in the city.

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

Check out engineering marvels of the past at this unintentionally retrofuturist museum.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

Romania's triumphal arch looks out over Bucharest.

The kitsch mansion of the former Romanian president Nicolae Ceaușescu features a golden bathroom.

This metro station doubles as an unintentional paleontology museum.

Chef Lawrence West serves up Indian tacos, wojapi, and other Lakota dishes at the brick-and-mortar incarnation of his popular food truck.

For a buck, students can snag freshly picked apples grown in the university orchards.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

Every September, international competitors flock to the flooded quarries of a tiny Scottish island.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chornobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement served food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

Nestled among the artifacts of the National Crafts Museum, this hidden gem offers hard-to-find regional foods from all over India.

At this sweet shop, the descendants of a royal chef serve up the fudge-like dessert his ancestor invented for a king.

A favorite haunt of Delhi's politicos and intellectuals, this old-school coffee shop was shut down under Indira Gandhi's Emergency.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

Dine aboard the historic Ghan train while retracing early explorers' journey through the Outback.

Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.