Places TexiCali Wants to Go

An on-site urban farm and fish pond supply some of the produce for this upscale restaurant.

A three-table eatery sits inside the home-kitchen of a seafood virtuoso in Bangkok's Chinatown.

Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

The city’s oldest gateway to the galaxy lies at the entrance to the Royal Botanical Gardens.

A vast and opulent collection of art and show dog memorabilia collected over one man's lifetime.

This may be one of the most valuable Morris & Co. stained glass windows in Australia.

An iconic work of public art that lights up the downtown area.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

The Vatican's secret porn-festooned bathroom was painted in erotic murals by one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance.

A notoriously corrupt Chief of Police's deteriorating Greek-themed playhouse.

For a taste of Vietnamese gastropub culture, look no further than this convivial seafood joint that stays open till midnight.

A refugee returns to his homeland to open Ho Chi Minh City’s first Michelin-starred restaurant.

The narrowest street in Paris.

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

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

Three connected pink triangles memorialize persecuted gays and lesbians throughout history.

This unusual elevator doesn’t stop or slow down.

A rare tour of an aristocrat's private home reveals valuable 17th-century paintings from artists like Rembrandt.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

One of the best collections of Byzantine art housed in a magnificent, 19th-century neoclassical home.

The best-preserved Roman site in India.

A mile-long navigable cave adorned with stalactites and stalagmites reaching up to 65 feet tall.