Places VRLNDR Wants to Go

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

One of the oldest continuously operating amusement parks in the U.S. is an open-air museum of Art Deco and neon lights.

A Colorado store that specializes in all things spiritual, metaphysical, and witchy.

An artist-run shop filled with art inspired by and made from nature.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

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

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

Travel back in time at a Moroccan-inspired restaurant that was the height of glamor in the 1970s.

This bookstore serves recipes from the cookbooks on sale.

This pub boasts a curious history and may have inspired a Dickens character.

This centuries-old pub boasts a collection of more than 4,500 snippets of neckties from around the world.

This tiny watering hole claims to have the smallest bar counter in Europe.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

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

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

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