Places mariaricks98 Wants to Go

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Easter in Westminster may be the only time and place to behold Edgar Allen Poe made entirely of Marshmallow Peeps.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

This 12-foot-tall T-rex is the largest K’Nex skeleton sculpture in the world.

A small and quirky museum hidden inside a fence.

San Antonio's first 3-D stereoscopic mural is a trippy treat for the eyes.

Four-story slides send people whizzing through the math department at this Munich university.

The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.

The oldest funicular in Lithuania has been climbing this steep hill since 1931.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

The first American axe throwing club.

This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.

This Chinese museum proves that it's a watermelon world, we're all just living in it.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

A painting in the historic Cathedral Basilica depicts Jesus and his disciples dining on a traditional Peruvian menu.

A museum dedicated to the silliest fruit.