Places dimsumnoodles Wants to Go

A collection of old neon signs from all over Poland line a secluded courtyard.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

Kwanu'sila the Thunderbird has been silently watching over Chicago for more than 100 years (kind of).

The rodent-shaped sidewalk imprint that earned worldwide media attention.

Once an ornate movie theater remade by Catholic Charities.

This titanic Catholic church in Chicago is also a refuge of the fictional cult-favorite wizard detective Harry Dresden.

This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.

Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

Time-frozen department store of dangerous and dusty relics.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

This ambiguous pig shrine is actually a monument to a beloved queen.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A beautiful example of 18th-century engineering still standing tall.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

Climb atop one of the world's longest and heaviest trains for an unbelievable journey across the Sahara Desert.

Mexico City's largest market contains a Willy Wonka-esque wonderland.