Places nellynelly Wants to Go

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

The world's oldest soul food restaurant is also one of its best.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

Renowned restaurant tucked in a cave once occupied by buccaneers.

For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

This giant wooden treehouse within a sprawling garden has its own eatery.

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

This whimsical winery by Antoni Gaudí looks ripped from the pages of a fairytale.

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

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.

The most biologically diverse protected area in Africa is also the most dangerous.

A salty cave excavated by elephants and the location of a deadly disease vector.

This small roadside eatery exists in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, as the equator runs right through it.

Where the White Nile River dramatically cascades between Lake Kyoga and Lake Albert in Uganda.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

Outside San Francisco lies a small clown cemetery and memorial.