Places mocchiatto Wants to Go

An award-winning children’s garden enchants visitors at the intersection of natural beauty and fairy tales.

This water wheel turned to stone in a matter of decades.

This narrow street is packed with street vendors and bars selling chicha.

Shop for superb tortillas at this homage to the ancient art of nixtamalization.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

The monastery survived the Communist revolution in Mongolia as a religious museum.

An unusual slot canyon in the Aztec/Navajo Sandstone has a cross-section like an inverted old-fashioned keyhole.

A replica of an early 19th-century vessel that sailed across the world.

Taste rums made with heirloom sugarcane on the distillery's own estate.

This small museum tucked within a subway station holds pieces from Madrid's past.

An old, deep well, connected with a miraculous, divine rescue and the patron saint of Madrid.

An automaton perched above an classic clock and watch store

A whimsical brother of the nearby Fallen Angel statue takes the falling part quite literally.

Order cookies baked by cloistered nuns in a 400-year-old monastery.

A notoriously corrupt Chief of Police's deteriorating Greek-themed playhouse.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

This staircase full of Mayan hieroglyphics is perhaps the largest single text in the world.

A full-size replica of this well-preserved temple lets you take a walk through the Mayan age.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

This fascinating and poignant museum chronicles every imaginable aspect of Spanish colonialism in the Americas.