Places Wendy Jones Wants to Go

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

In a small town outside Jerusalem, a roadside diner is devoted to all things Elvis Presley.

Enter the deli, walk until you hit the taxidermy, then order some hot, homey guisado.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

Sunset Park's Guatemalan community knows to head to the back of this bodega for a taste of home.

One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.

Find regional specialties from the Thai-Laotian border inside in a North Hollywood swap meet's food court.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

Eat first, shop later at this eatery within an Asian grocer.

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

Follow the path behind this treat-slinging camper van to a sculpture garden in the forest.

One of the last remaining buildings from one of Calgary's earliest businesses.

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

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

This ghost-town bar has bullet holes and plenty of stories lurking within its walls.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

Shop while you wait for a table in this tiny Indonesian eatery within a mini-mart.

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

Famed for its pie, this eatery has a hidden tunnel that allowed Catholics to secretly walk to church during the Reformation.

This pirate-broadcasting-tower-turned-restaurant played a rebellious role in the history of Dutch television.

An everyday Jackson Heights bodega conceals a Mexican seafood paradise.

This century-old confectioner's outlet store was plucked right out of the Seattle World's Fair.

The mosaic Star of David at the front of this store hints that it's no ordinary Italian grocer.