Paul’s travelogue

Beretta

Opened in 2008, Beretta has become one of San Francisco's most celebrated bars. They serve food, like pizzas and italian tapas-like stuff, all of which is excellent, but the cocktails are the main event here.

Golden State Model Railroad Museum

Located just east of Richmond's rich historical district in the Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline Park, the Golden State Model Railroad Museum boasts one of the largest model railroads in the country at just over 10,000 square feet.

The museum features historically correct layouts of Bay Area and Sierra Nevada stations and landmarks.

Maker’s Mark Historic Distillery

Maker’s Mark Distillery is a historic handcrafted, small-batch bourbon whiskey maker in Loretto, Kentucky. It was the first and only distillery in America to be named as a National Historic Landmark.

The Neon Boneyard

Located just north of downtown Las Vegas, The Boneyard is a unique venue of gambling history and a photographer's paradise.

Death and Company

Specializing in incredibly good and classic cocktails, Death & Company is one of New York's best bars. With a speakeasy style and a very well crafted menu it is hard to go wrong with any of the drinks here.

Burana Tower

Burana Tower, located about an hour east of Bishkek near the city of Tokmok, is all that remains of the ancient city of Balasagyn, once the thriving capital of the Karakhanid Empire. Apparently, at its height, the city manufactured exquisite glass and ceramics, had an elaborate city-wide irrigation/plumbing/sewer system built with fired-clay pipes, was home to scholars, poets and numerous religions (although in its later years it became a Muslim city), it was home to fierce warriors – male and female – and it was a major stop on one of the Silk Road routes (from the Torugart Pass out of China, past Lake Issyk-Kul through what is now Bishkek before heading further westward.

The Future Birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk

The Future Birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk

Tulum ruins

The ruins of a Mayan city on the sea. There is access to a very nice stretch of beach down below, though it gets a bit crowded by mid-morning.

Mohonk Mountain House

Nestled in the Catskill Mountains, north of New York City, a place of complete serenity can be found. Like a trip back in time, the Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, New York, offers a respite for visitors looking to re-energize their batteries in the land of Rip Van Winkle.

Uyuni, traincemetery

Located just north of the salt flat, Salar de Uyuni, lays a Train cemetery.

Out there in the arid and dry plane lies the final resting place of a good dozen steam engines, most of which must be a good hundred years old as well as probably some fifty wagons of all kind of types.