The chicken and waffles at Indianapolis, Indiana, mainstay Maxine’s are just about perfect, kicked up by the addition of sweet potato to the waffle batter and a scoop of house-made peach butter on top. The huge fried chicken wings are addictively delicious, and the trifecta of waffle, chicken and peach butter is pure gustatory bliss. Read more...

The New York Times called it the best ice cream in the world—just one of the many accolades the Cambridge shop/café has collected since it was co-founded by Steve’s alum Gus Rancatore in 1981. Toscanini’s continues to push the flavor boundaries with such intriguing and satisfying combinations as B3 (brownies, brown sugar, brown butter) and the amazing burnt caramel, which Read more...

Bruster’s Ice Cream is committed to making the best ice cream possible from locally sourced, farm fresh ingredients. With stores nationwide, there may be one near you! Read more...

This is a working dairy farm where not only can you get fresh ice cream but also milk and even full meals. Spending money here feels like giving to the people at the very source of food production. The best thing is knowing that your delicious ice cream never has to travel more than a couple of hundred yards until Read more...

The nightclub’s original structure dates back to 1922, when it initially housed the First National Bank of Sherman, now called West Hollywood, named after the city’s founder who contributed greatly to the establishment of the area. The decor of the building is characterized by an Italian style with large windows and stone accents, designed by Asa. Read more...

The Library of Alexandria was the ancient world’s largest and most comprehensive library, housing books and manuscripts (on papyrus scrolls) as well as meeting rooms, gardens, and lecture halls on its grounds. Considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the original Library of Alexandria was tragically destroyed in a fire nearly 2,000 years ago. The new Library Read more...

Founded in 1854, the State Library of Victoria now holds more than 1.5 million books, including special collections highlighting chess, the arts, the diaries of Melbourne’s founders, and the folios of Captain James Cook. The centerpiece of the library is the LaTrobe Reading Room, a soaring octagonal space with the capacity to accommodate more than one million books and 500 Read more...

Universidad de Guadalajara (UDG) is a public university with around 119,500 students, mostly at undergraduate level, and is one of the oldest universities in Mexico, having been founded in 1791 as the Real Universidad de Guadalajara. It’s ranked seventh in Mexico and 751-800 in the world in 2019, and earns the second-highest score in the country for the web impact Read more...

The Fisher Fine Arts Library is hard to miss with its bright red brick exterior, but it’s what’s on the inside that makes this library so magnificent. Its main reading room, which was featured in the 1993 Oscar-winning film “Philadelphia,” is a stunning meld of brick red and yellow terra cotta with Roman arches and a giant roof skylight. Read more...

Open air is the theme at Minneapolis Central Library. The 90-foot-high atrium features wide, clear walkways and glass elevators and towering windows. Outside, a 90-ton, 58-foot long overhanging “wing” feature on the roof grabs attention from the street below. Read more...