Places Vicki Arkoff Wants to Go

This impressively large collection includes crackers shaped like Jimmy Carter, Mickey Mouse, and more.

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

A Caribbean chef recreates his enslaved great-great-grandmother's dishes inside the home she purchased after buying her freedom.

Once where royalty entertained guests, this opulent table is now one of the longest in the world.

This bar is filled with Star Wars merchandise from around the world, all of it unlicensed knockoffs.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

A gorgeous gilded tower houses what may be the world's largest collection of gin.

This Singaporean food-court stall was home to the world's cheapest Michelin-starred meal.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

Puerto Rico's oldest rum producer started its 140-year-old business with "a little barrel."

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

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

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

Sample cuisine inspired by the Great Plains indigenous people who have been gathering at this sacred Canadian Heritage Park for 6,000 years.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.

At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years.

In a busy Oaxaca market, a nearly century-old drinks stand still serves family recipes from giant clay pots.

This antique rail car has been reborn as an urban cafe.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

Sidle into a side alley for a taste of sumo wrestlers' traditional hot-pot soup, in a tiny restaurant founded by a former competitor.

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

One of the few places to grab a beer in Fez is a former British consulate.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.