Places tkwhit02 Wants to Go

This bakery and museum offers tours of the tastes and mythology of Aachen's signature spice biscuit—just don't ask for the recipe.

The only thing sweeter than the potatoes is the canine proprietor of this roadside stall.

The interior of this Serbian royal family's mausoleum is covered with exquisite mosaics.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

Thanks to a spelling mistake this bizarre beaver-tiger hybrid became the symbol of a Siberian town.

Many of the murals covering this sleepy Florida town hide some sort of intentional error.

This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.

Volcanic rocks ground down into sand make this Spanish beach as black as night.

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

A vault of safe-deposit boxes in an old bank has been repurposed as a time capsule of Hispanic culture.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

This repurposed church offers a more literal way to get closer to the heavens.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

The oldest continuously-operating tavern in Wisconsin used a clever loophole to serve alcohol during Prohibition.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.