Places mariaricks98 Wants to Go

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

This Virginia town has been famous for its fried chicken since the 19th century.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

Friendships have been forged over ham and eggs every Wednesday morning for a century.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

The spot where the two men ate together now stands enclosed in glass.

The quirky collection includes treasures like Elvis' underwear, Bob Barker's toothbrush, and hundreds of sock monkeys.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

Stuffed people arranged in unsettling scenes give a voyeuristic glimpse of life within a historic old hotel.

Colorful curls of hand-blown glass form a captivating tower in San Antonio's Central Library.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

An incredibly random collection of wax figures is displayed in a shopping center walkway.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

This rare female version of the Muffler Man has its clothes removed each summer to signal the start of pool season.

The taxidermy remains of the first brown bear to enter Germany in 170 years.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

A nostalgic restaurant evokes life in Taiwan from the 1940s to the 1970s.