Places samireland Wants to Go

A collection of outdoor mystical statues paying homage to indigenous Australians and ecological stewardship.

A relic from a forgotten bakery chain still spins atop a diner.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

All that remains of the once-booming chain is a single orange-roofed restaurant.

Martha's Vineyard's most beloved speakeasy sells late-night pastries.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

Eat like a bird in a bamboo nest.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.

While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.

This bright yellow building is packed with sweet treats from all around the world, from chocolate-covered crickets to whoopie pies.

This mom-and-pop Japanese sweets shop has been serving cloud-light mochi for almost a century.

This shop also boasts some sweet memorabilia from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

How this Pine Barrens hill got its name is uncertain, but on a good day the view from the fire tower is crystal clear.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.