Places Vivian Shen Wants to Go

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

In 1952, this restaurant began selling the Colonel's “secret” recipe.

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

In this state repository of folk art, perhaps no piece is more representative than this brutal work featuring the town’s distinctive black clay pottery.

Here you can learn about an insect that was called "cactus blood," which trade turned immensely valuable as "red gold".

Escape the city for a meal where deep-fried caterpillars, heirloom corn, and cult local mezcals shine.

A glamorous octogenarian chef-owner serves rare Istmeño specialties in a tropical garden.

With more than 30 ingredients, chef Cecilia Florian’s stupendously complex, harmonious moles are a masterclass in layering flavors.

Step past a rainbow of Oaxacan nightshades for a menu of regional moles worthy of weddings and funerals.

Don’t be surprised if you run into some of Oaxaca’s top chefs in line at this family run taco stop.

This amazing collection includes rare stamps from around the world, including fluorescent ones.

Start your morning off with an epic food crawl in this market east of Oaxaca’s historic center.

This bakery forgoes industrial wheat in favor of locally harvested grains.

One of the city's few vendors selling the Sierra Norte's ancestral beverage lies within a hidden farmers market.

The skyline of Montreal includes the silhouette of an unexpected fruit-shaped Canadian staple.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.