Places jlauria Wants to Go

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

This café is dedicated to serving coffee roasted by Native American-owned companies.

In the Hugging Tree Forest, lingonberry marshmallows, hot chocolates, and the best campfire lattes north of the Arctic Circle come to you.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

A remnant of the last Ice Age, this lake is surrounded by fascinating rock formations.

Hidden on the seventh floor of a historic building, this Cajun spot features wall-to-wall bottles of hot sauce.

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

The oldest continuously-operating tavern in Wisconsin used a clever loophole to serve alcohol during Prohibition.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

The exterior of this home was used for the hit television show, The Brady Bunch.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

This repurposed church offers a more literal way to get closer to the heavens.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

In addition to fine dairy products, the world's most beautiful milk shop also offers a feast for the eyes.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.

Denmark’s never-ending bridge.

This Vietnamese bar doubles as a multistory labyrinth.