Places straycatd Wants to Go

Tackle southern Thailand’s favorite dish at this hyper-casual Phuket Town restaurant.

Feast on coconut crab curry at one of Thailand’s only outposts of Baba cuisine.

This Theravada Buddhist temple is a peaceful oasis steeped in history.

Come in, light some incense, and ignore the live snakes around you.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Southeast Asia is a monument to a disappearing community.

Step inside a Nyonya eatery nestled within a historic museum.

A sprawling tropical paradise offers a taste of fruits from around the world.

300 years of pharmaceutical history on display.

Dine on Hungarian-Jewish dishes at this multigenerational, family-run institution.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

Located off a bustling strip, a silent teahouse employs workers with hearing- or speech-related disabilities.

Giant pagoda houses the car that drove Thích Quảng Đức to his death by self-immolation.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

One-room museum dedicated to India's most enigmatic mathematician.

A collection of crumbling mansions stand as a reminder of a more prosperous time in this Indian village.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

A remarkably intact castle that once was the largest in Ireland.

The world of the ancient Celtic civilization explained through a bewitching 11 acre garden.

This 5,300-year-old tomb with mysterious carvings crowns an Irish mountain.

Ireland's only German military cemetery holds the remains of a spy who was moved there under the cover of darkness.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.