Places Wendy Jones Wants to Go

Come for the oysters, stay for the priceless art honoring inventors across history and Scotland's favorite outdoor sports.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.

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

A garment factory hides a small Dominican eatery in the hallway to its freight elevator.

From the dishes to the art, this Michelin-starred restaurant orbits around one beloved French melon.

This one-window stand has been home to a giant vat of slowly simmering meats and an array of unique tacos for almost 50 years.

After a traumatic encounter with a six-foot eel, one Galway baker started making a daily loaf of sourdough in its shape.

One of Edinburgh's oldest pubs hides a 19th-century skittles alley in the back.

Beer lovers thirsty for knowledge can now visit a museum devoted to the world's largest hop-growing region.

Neal Cassady may still have an open tab at one of Denver’s oldest watering holes.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

Head past the aisles of tropical fruit and imported candy at this bodega to discover a hidden, weekends-only taco stand.

The cuisine at this Sheepshead Bay spot tells the story of a displaced Muslim Chinese community.

Walk through a clothing store, across a courtyard, and up several flights of stairs for delicious coffee with a side of beautiful views.

Hidden behind a wall, Spanish nuns distribute their signature sweets on a revolving tray.

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

This eatery transports diners to a place that no longer exists: East Germany.

A restaurant with an extensive Irish whiskey bar also has several first editions of famous works by Irish authors.

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

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.