Places Edited by Winnie Lee

In the shadow of the Sydney Opera House, Indigenous ingredients shine.

Inventive brewers use NSW ingredients to dream up flavorful beers made with local honey, native raspberries, and Mariposa plums.

A rotating nine-course menu offers delicious deep-dives into the foodways of Chilean agricultural valleys.

From maqui pisco sours to mote-mushroom risotto, the “Mapuchef” elevates endemic ingredients and celebrates Mapuche foodways.

In a corner of Santiago's largest market, this inventive Mapuche eatery shows "ancestral cuisine" doesn't have to mean old-fashioned.

Step inside a Nyonya eatery nestled within a historic museum.

From pink dolphins to underwater cities, this museum explores the unseen, mythical world of the Amazon river.

Once a safe haven for Black patrons and performers—including Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington—during the Jim Crow era, portions of this nightclub and motel have been restored to welcome a new kind of visitor.

The devil masks on display at this small museum are part of an annual festival that has been taking place for centuries.

These mosaic designs promise a cure for headaches, toothaches, and colds.

This rooftop sign has been confusing Milwaukee-bound airline passengers for decades.

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

Propped high atop the peak of Mount Gamsutlmeer, this abandoned village is one of the oldest settlements in the region.

One of the greatest boxers and humanitarians to ever live chose his hometown as his final resting place.

This tombstone marks the final resting place of the beloved 1990's character, Ernest P. Worrell.

When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

This research hub in the Amazon Rainforest is perched amid one of the world's most biologically diverse landscapes.

Mirrored floors and arched shelves create the illusion of an infinite tunnel of books.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

In the town of Åtvidaberg, the midday sun sets off a loud cannon boom.

Locals say Williams' ghost still haunts the place where she was murdered.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”