Places Sun Wants to Go

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

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

This Pringle-shaped ledge makes for the perfect photo op.

CDMX's home for the world's culinary delights.

At 929 pounds and 26 feet tall, this stainless steel fork can only be used by the likes of King Kong.

The world's largest commercially available hamburger is complete with 15 pounds of lettuce, 30 pounds of bacon, and 36 pounds of cheese.

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

The best place to acquire pea shooting fame.

A tribute to the furry local heroes who helped get residents through many tough times.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

Tracking the 1,500-year history of Korea's star cabbage.

The world's largest pineapple building honors Bathurst's favorite fruit.

Acres of salt crystal pyramids dry in the sun along Thailand's "salt road."

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

Castro's communist ice cream mothership has been serving five-scoop "salads" for over 50 years.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

One man's lifelong collection of 10,000 rare steins tells the story of beer drinking from 1350 to today.