Places dimsumnoodles Wants to Go

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

This unusual structure may be on its way to becoming a cultural landmark in Toronto.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

In Chicago, a pizza-enthusiast has opened a museum dedicated to the history of pizza.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

During the Industrial Revolution this “Temple of Invention” was full of intricate miniature machines and gadgets.