Places dimsumnoodles Wants to Go

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

Where dioramas can follow you home.

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.