Places remcrae Wants to Go

Don't get it twisted: This is the oldest pretzel bakery in the United States.

At this coffee shop, each drink celebrates African-American history and luminaries.

This vanilla farm serves its crops at an on-site café.

In her ancestral home, one chef preserves ancient Filipino recipes and serves up traditional, home-cooked food to history-loving foodies.

An indigenous ethnobotanist runs this brunch spot celebrating Australia’s native flavors.

Rare moles meet activism at this Oaxacan eatery.

This women-run eatery and cooking school is putting India's long-neglected tribal cuisines back on the menu.

Few of the many visitors to this resort town know of its hidden Maya ruins.

The ruins of the "place of the cloud snake" sit in the middle of an urban environment.

The archeological ruins of the ancient fortified city of the mysterious Teotenanca civilization.

One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.

This well held a sacred source of water supposedly unleashed from the barren rocks by a wizard-like archbishop.

The remains of an ancient Roman city are hidden underneath Bologna's beautiful public library.

Before it was buried by volcanic ash, this fast-food restaurant fed the hungry hordes of ancient Rome.

The ruins of a pre-Columbian fortress city so secure it held off the Spanish conquistadors for over 20 years.

Visiting dignitaries and Hollywood stars once stayed at this 1920s hotel, alongside ghosts that are said to haunt its corridors.

A fascinating little museum all about the rich history of Peru’s famous plant.

The world's largest clay lick, where parrots gather to snack.

The recurring nature of this geographic feature might make it unique in the world.

An improbable waterfall springs from an orange-white cliff face, tumbling into the headwaters of the Virgin River above Zion National Park.

Peru's (not so) mysterious carved stones.

The mysterious "Candelabra of the Andes" could represent anything from a god's trident to a hallucinogenic plant.

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.