Places Pat Cassels Wants to Go

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

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

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

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

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

A hotel with a rich Wild West history of miners and bootleggers.

Open-air cremations in Colorado's self-proclaimed spiritual mecca.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

A memorial dedicated to the victims of the Columbine High School shootings.

A museum dedicated to the mysterious cryptid.

Possibly the world's only drive-in movie theater with an attached motel.

“You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.

The clock that sets them all.

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.