Places lilpuddanesca Wants to Go

A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.

The first ever diner included on the National Register of Historic Places is famous for its custard French toast.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

In this state repository of folk art, perhaps no piece is more representative than this brutal work featuring the town’s distinctive black clay pottery.

Step past a rainbow of Oaxacan nightshades for a menu of regional moles worthy of weddings and funerals.

This bakery forgoes industrial wheat in favor of locally harvested grains.

An incredible collection of Mesoamerican art assembled by one of Mexico's great artists.

A 16th-century monastery boasts a lush array of plants native to Mexico’s most biodiverse region.

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

Located in a veterinary school, this macabre exhibit displays the effects of animal diseases.

The jewel of western Mexico's archaeological legacy is this tiered circular pyramid now covered in grass.

This ancient jade mask depicting the Zapotec bat god was found in the ruins of the pyramids of Monte Alban.

The largest cave shaft in the world is home to thousands of birds and popular with BASE jumpers.

The splendor of this 17th century golden chapel has led it to be called the "eighth wonder of the world."

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

Explore the atmospheric ruins of an abandoned convent in the dense forests of Mexico's first national park.

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

Inside one of Guadalajara's oldest houses, you can find puppets and foam models of the city's missing buildings.

This concrete amphitheater offers an unforgettable view of one of Mexico's most beautiful canyons.

This historic cemetery built for victims of the epidemics that swept Guadalajara is shrouded in macabre tales.

One of the oldest hospitals in the Americas is now decorated in hallucinatory murals.

A derelict hunting lodge that was once the site of aristocratic debauchery.

The cathedral is not really remarkable except for the campanile with its astronomical clock and some amazing automatons which perform every day at noon