Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

Try your hand at old-fashioned coffee growing at this museum devoted to one of the world's most coveted beans.

This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.'s LGBTQ community since the 1950s.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

This diner's a kitschy dreamland for anyone whose heart is stuck in the 1980s.

This restaurant gives a new meaning to farm-to-table cuisine.

Easily overlooked in favor of the wineries that dot the region, this blast from the past is equally worth the visit.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

This bird-loving brewery is situated in an old municipal bathhouse, nestled beside a 300-year-old windmill.

Enjoy coffee and cake while viewing antique medical equipment at this unique cafe.

If you've ever wondered at which cycle of the moon you’re supposed to spread manure produced by your guinea pigs, this is the place for you.

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

A 100-plus-year-old mill transformed into a hotel and restaurant.

Record-holding guitar meant to promote country.

Tribute to the Chinese people of Young and Australia.

This 4.5-meter-tall statue of a native Australian bird marks Hydro Aluminium's 40th year in the area.

Everything about this over-size novelty animal is huge including its testicles.

The largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere.

Largest Buddha carved from gemstone-quality jade in the world, on a world tour through 2011.

A whimsical menagerie of creatures carved into a 300-year-old tree trunk.

One of the oldest theaters in Australia, it's also said to be haunted by a performer who died on stage.

Concrete spud looks like the North American Sebago.

A perfectly preserved abandoned criminal asylum in South Australia.