Places zichk Wants to Go

Established over a thousand years ago, this family-run teahouse continues to serve skewers of sweet rice cake to this day.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

The former home of queer novelist Yoshiya Nobuko memorializes her contributions to modern-day manga.

Belgium’s famous peeing statue has worn many hats (and coats, and pants), which are on display at this small museum.

This beach runway is off limits during high tide.

The Hveragerði fissure runs through this unassuming shopping center.

Banished from town, this local jester concocted a clever return.

This Haudenosaunee restaurant is a delicious tribute to indigenous cuisine.

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

This former psychiatric hospital was once one of the largest in Australia.

Australia's oldest artists' colony.

A unique rock formation that only a few have managed to venture inside.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

A 36-ton remnant of the last Ice Age now resides amid picturesque vineyards.

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

A cliff-hanging restaurant.

For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.

The chefs at El Diablo use heat generated by an active volcano to cook the food.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

Hundreds of intricately carved Armenian stone crosses can be found within this huge cemetery.