Places Madeleine Wants to Go

This Bogotá museum houses the world's largest collection of pre-Columbian gold relics.

Storied crypts fill the most famous cemetery in Colombia.

The world's largest ecosystem of its kind is home to South America's only native species of bear.

No one knows for sure why this town's dead refuse to rot.

This pagoda was once the central feature of a Buddhist temple that no longer exists.

Collected from all around Seoul, thousands of secondhand books create this photogenic tunnel.

With a history dating back to Victorian times, this architectural gem is a rare New York tourist haunt worth visiting.

Get to know the plant-based fare of Chinese Buddhist monks.

Brooklyn’s wildest restaurant is serving ice cream in snail shells and marrow bones.

This nondescript coffee shop conceals one of the wildest patisseries in New York City.

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

A basement pool hall is the front for some of the best Dominican food in New York City.

Enter the deli, walk until you hit the taxidermy, then order some hot, homey guisado.

Supremely flaky treats await at Amadou Ly’s boulangerie and patisserie.

All of the Malaysian sweets at this shop are made daily with a whole lot of love.

Deliciousness abounds at a Guatemalan restaurant masquerading as a pizzeria.

Shop while you wait for a table in this tiny Indonesian eatery within a mini-mart.

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

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

Chefs from Tibet's Kham region offer steaming meat pies and noodle soups in this nook behind a jewelry store.

Rare moles meet activism at this Oaxacan eatery.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

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

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.