Places Skuttel Wants to Go

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

Assemble a masterpiece at the first and only North American school exclusively dedicated to mosaic art.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.

This underground museum highlights the history of Mexico City's subway system.

A shining treasure trove of fine Mexican silver dating back to the 15th century.

Get a privileged view over Mexico City's Historic Center from a terrace right in its heart.

Mexico City's largest market contains a Willy Wonka-esque wonderland.

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

This Parisian café is dedicated to great tea and the art of knitting.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.