Places jooltman Wants to Go

Palestinian-style savory breads and fine patisserie are served with a generous side of hospitality.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

Believed to be the only Orthodox church in the world that features a free-standing pulpit.

Savor sheep milk yogurt at the last of Athens' dairy bars.

Luminaries of all stripes have sipped strong Greek coffee at this cafe since 1839.

Gladiators once walked this ancient, subterranean passage.

A man's head is enshrined beneath a statue near the first building constructed for the modern Olympic Games.

The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.

The oldest cemetery of modern-day Athens blends the modern and ancient worlds.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

In a busy Oaxaca market, a nearly century-old drinks stand still serves family recipes from giant clay pots.

In a quiet residential neighborhood, one restaurant fights to preserve heirloom corn, one tortilla at a time.

A 16th-century monastery boasts a lush array of plants native to Mexico’s most biodiverse region.

This graveyard boasts a medley of diverse and imaginative funeral architecture.

The ruins of an abandoned church mingle with the graves at Oaxaca’s General Cemetery.

The oldest cemetery in Belgium.

This unattributed sculpture in Amsterdam is hiding in plain sight.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

In the days before house numbers, these colorful signs held clues about various buildings' purposes.

Amsterdam's narrowest house facade is a monument to 17th-century tax evasion.

This museum housed in a former brothel explores the past and present of sex work in Amsterdam.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

Some 80,000 Delft Blue tiles line the inside of this Amsterdam walkway.