Places Stefan Kowasch Wants to Go

This old-school café is famous for serving coffee, chilaquiles, and the Cuban Revolution.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

The oldest candy store in England has been selling traditional sweets since 1827.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

Classic game cookery takes center stage at what's widely considered London's oldest restaurant.

One of Kyoto's oldest food establishments has supplied soba noodles to temple priests and the Imperial Palace.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

A winery built on the site of a Gallo-Roman estate uses historical tools to recreate ancient vintages.

This supermarket offers shoppers a window into the past alongside their groceries.

This Michelin-starred restaurant sheds light on a rare period of cultural and culinary tolerance in Cordoba’s past.

A building-sized painting of the renowned 19th-century American abolitionist.

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

The dishes at this restaurant by The Sioux Chef celebrate indigenous heritage.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

This mostly abandoned shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.

Vibrant paintings stretch across 600 feet of derelict railway.

An abandoned logging settlement nestled in the woods near a popular ski town.

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

This enormous abandoned factory is now a makeshift graffiti gallery.

A former bank seized as a sniper vantage point during the Bosnian War is now a secret graffiti art gallery.

Originally slated to become a luxurious resort, this structure is now a graffiti haunt reclaimed by nature.