Places joanbugmurphy Wants to Go

Sip cherry liqueur at a bar dating back to 1840.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Eat the ultimate iteration of Portugal's most beloved pastry.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

A secret, rocky playground hidden amongst the plain white beaches of the Florida coast.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust... that leaves that part out.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

These dramatic cola-colored falls have appeared in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a song by Sufjan Stevens.

This shallow cave got its name from copious amount of human bones found inside.

Winter weather reveals a large Italian marble crucifix drowned beneath Lake Michigan.

Stock up on superb sour cherry preserves made by hand in copper kettles.

As Ernest Hemingway scribbled notes for stories, he left a lasting impression on this bar: a charred hole where he extinguished his cigars.