Places Wendy Jones Wants to Go

This Jewish bakery, among the last in the region, sells legendary sweets from a century-old storefront.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

Once frequented by heavyweights of the Russian arts scene, this café is stuck in the 1800s.

Who said a biker bar is no place for a taxidermy squirrel collection?

From working out of his garage to the James Beard semifinals, one Tucson baker has kept his fan base—and his grains—local.

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

The Quapaw tribe supplies the meat and produce in this Oklahoma casino restaurant.

One of the oldest wine cellars in Germany is now a restaurant beneath Bremen's town hall.

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.

Get fishing gear and craft beer at this restaurant on the pier.

This bakery and museum offers tours of the tastes and mythology of Aachen's signature spice biscuit—just don't ask for the recipe.

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

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

Those belting out show tunes in this West Village piano bar might not realize it marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

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

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

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

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

In her ancestral home, one chef preserves ancient Filipino recipes and serves up traditional, home-cooked food to history-loving foodies.

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.

Meat and seafood are part of the frozen dessert flavors available at these legendary street stands.