Places Stefan Kowasch Wants to Go

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

Famed for its pie, this eatery has a hidden tunnel that allowed Catholics to secretly walk to church during the Reformation.

This unassuming oasis elevated just above the busy streets of Jerusalem offers one of the best views of the Old City.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

Get buzzed beholding one of the world's largest coffee-machine collections, then step into the café for a specially brewed cup.

Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

By night, this auto repair shop turns into a taquería serving up some of the city's finest al pastor tacos.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

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

Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

Why settle for barbecue chips when you can get actual barbecue?

“Wagon Jobber" turned smokehouse magnate's family-owned business is still going strong 100 years later.

This waterfront museum in Maine is dedicated to the history of the smoked-herring trade.

This tiny traditional smokehouse is the only one left in this historic fishing port.

At this small shop off a dirt road in the forest, the specialty is eel the owner caught and smoked himself.

A non-native grove of 241 redwoods in Southern California.

This museum in the woods evokes the work and lives of Michigan's 19-century lumberjacks.

This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.

This is one really big nut.

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