Places phildzielski Wants to Go

This gas station offers wine tastings and craft beer.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

Try a classic Necco candy bar being resurrected in a small suburban shop.

What happens when a chef with Indigenous roots takes over a hotel-restaurant?

One of the last remaining buildings from one of Calgary's earliest businesses.

First flying reptile discovered in British Columbia was for years forgotten in a cabinet.

With its webbed walls and bright red coloring, Calgary's iconic bridge looks like a finger trap puzzle stretched across the river.

A herd of colorfully painted bovine statues can be found in the middle of "cowtown."

The oldest candy store in England has been selling traditional sweets since 1827.

This deceivingly ordinary warehouse hides an enormous collection of pop culture treasures.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

Cool down and fill up after visiting Teotihuacán at this bar and restaurant in a deep, underground cave.

The storied steakhouse is the last in a long line of Lebanese-owned supper clubs in Tulsa.

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

Get buzzed beholding one of the world's largest coffee-machine collections, then step into the café for a specially brewed cup.

London's first edible insect farm offers facility tours and cooking classes.

Meat and seafood are part of the frozen dessert flavors available at these legendary street stands.

Sidle into a side alley for a taste of sumo wrestlers' traditional hot-pot soup, in a tiny restaurant founded by a former competitor.

What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

After giving up Michelin glamour for his Amish faith, one chef now makes stellar sausages in a small, off-the-grid shop.

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.