Places simonele Wants to Go

This café is dedicated to serving coffee roasted by Native American-owned companies.

This Michelin-starred restaurant sheds light on a rare period of cultural and culinary tolerance in Cordoba’s past.

This New Orleans boutique and nursery specializes in rare flora, with a focus on carnivorous plants.

The haunting cadaver tomb of a famous French poet, playwright, and filmmaker.

This museum tells the history of Day of the Dead sugar sculptures.

This unique bird reserve sits within an important fragment of Brazil's Atlantic rainforest.

A spring water stream jumps through a walkable "bridge" cavern and a narrow canyon.

Each of these hand-painted wooden boxes, which date to between the 16th and 19th centuries, contains a genuine human skull.

This dreamlike museum is filled with the works of an influential surrealist artist whose name you may have never heard.

The only Native American comic shop in the world.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

The entrance to an early 20th-century cultural center features murals that deal with the cultural fusion that characterizes Mexico.

Peek into a cave of giant, glimmering crystals.

"Di amigo y entra" at this Argentinian Middle Earth-inspired pub.

An ornate and disused early 20th-century building has been given new life as a fully operational structure, complete with offices, oyster bar, and a furniture retailer.

Wood carving meets bird conservation at this museum showcasing the life's work of one man.

This permanent exhibition of commercial signs aims to preserve the cultural heritage of the city.

Once an aquarium, this sanctuary now rescues sharks and rays from fishing nets.

This museum dedicated to cartography is housed in a former 17th-century convent.

This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.

At this 1940s-era neighborhood favorite, you can still drink a cherry phosphate.

By night, this auto repair shop turns into a taquería serving up some of the city's finest al pastor tacos.

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

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