Places karin66204 Wants to Go

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Dance on a hand-hewn log floor padded with bouncy boxcar springs at a saloon built in 1883.

This Arkansas town is known for its gangster history, its healing waters, and now its brews.

This ambitious restaurant celebrates the culinary traditions of the Ozarks before 1870.

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

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

Eat your way from Ghana to Myanmar on this globe-trotting menu.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

In Little Caribbean, an ice-cream shop serves up regional flavors, including soursop, Irish moss, and "greatnut."

Watch maple syrup being made without ever leaving the city.

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

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

This restaurant features Native American foods from across the country.

The impeccably spiced roast pork buns at this bakery are worth the wait.

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

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

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

This functional solar system model was inspired by the famous Eisinga Planetarium.

Home to the world's oldest functioning orrery.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

One extremely determined man's homemade universe.

This state-of-the-art planetarium takes architectural inspiration from the sun itself.