Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

A quiet Sicilian village is home to a cafe that had an important role in "The Godfather."

Nestled amid the peaks and lochs of the Scottish Highlands, this inn and pub has played host to outlaws and ghosts.

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

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

A small town celebrates its cash crop with a giant highway sculpture.

For decades, Puerta del Sol has been illuminated by a giant, guitar-wielding bottle of sherry.

Megapodes incubate their eggs using the heat of an active volcano on this Pacific isle.

A statue honors the genius who allegedly first took a meatball and made it into a hamburger.

Worship at the altar of seafood at this shop housed inside the town's oldest stone church.

Built in the 1970s, this curious modular home found new life as a sundae-shaped ice cream stand.

In the mid-20th century, a tamale-slinging juke joint attracted a diverse clientele in the Mississippi Delta.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

Dance on a hand-hewn log floor padded with bouncy boxcar springs at a saloon built in 1883.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

Amidst medieval and baroque buildings, five human-sized gherkins stand tall.

A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.

A relic from a forgotten bakery chain still spins atop a diner.

The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chornobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.

The souvenir got the company’s founder out of a pretty pickle at the World’s Fair.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.