Places ridgleakatherine Wants to Go

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

Some of the best Persian food in New York comes from the front window of an unassuming pizza shop.

Hidden within a spa in a Texas strip mall is a restaurant specializing in Eastern European foods.

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

Deliciousness abounds at a Guatemalan restaurant masquerading as a pizzeria.

Rare moles meet activism at this Oaxacan eatery.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

Try your hand at old-fashioned coffee growing at this museum devoted to one of the world's most coveted beans.

Little India's hidden gem of kindness and good food.

Eat like a bird in a bamboo nest.

It is believed that the historic tower is sinking at a rate of an inch a year, though no one is completely sure why.

Hundreds of wooden coffins dangle from cliffs and caves in the Philippines.

Smoked mummies housed in mountainside caves.

Some locals believe the fabled lost gold of General Yamashida is hiding somewhere beneath the city.

The remains of an abandoned air force hospital located on a redeveloped Air Force base.

Church organ in the Philippines constructed out of bamboo.

A melting pot of Asian-Pacific art features one symbolic sculpture from each of 20 different nations.

An island in the middle of a lake, in the middle of a volcano, in the middle of a bigger lake, in the middle of a bigger island, in an archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean.

An eatery in a shallow river where diners can enjoy their meal mere feet from the base of an artificial waterfall.

This volcano in the Philippines is believed to have miraculous healing powers.

Nearly 100 concrete graves lie hidden just beyond the pristine waters along the coast.

This belfry is all that remains of the town that was buried by a violent volcano eruption.