Places murrayalisonb Wants to Go

At this multicultural hub, refugee chefs serve the foods they miss most from home.

Two James Beard Award-winning chefs are putting their own spin on Filipino favorites in a food market stall.

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

The development of this cliffside waterpark is representative of Mexico's history of co-op tourism developments.

This museum dedicated to cartography is housed in a former 17th-century convent.

These dramatic cola-colored falls have appeared in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a song by Sufjan Stevens.

“The Place Where Food Grows Near the River” implements ancestral Indigenous agricultural techniques.

On a remote island in the northern reaches of Lake Michigan, a museum of collectibles collides with a vintage toy store.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

This lake sits on an estimated 4 million tons of salt.

Wander among the gravestones in this historic border town.

Likely Mexico City's most eclectic shopping mall, with its own version of the Walk of Fame.

Sample sweets at an Art Nouveau candy shop that's been in business since 1874.

An airy Art Deco space devoted to the weird and wonderful folk art traditions of Mexico.

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

One of the best places in Florida to spot rare, carnivorous pitcher plants.

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

A bronze statue of the fictional character nicknamed "Mrs. Hat" from a beloved Belgian comedy.

The beams of the New College, Oxford dining hall come with an amazing story.

Home to some of the last true noodle artisans in New York.