Places DrFlog Wants to Go

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

Be a ninja - or just act like one.

Although it has never been a secret ninja base, this shrine still has plenty of tricks up its sleeve.

Dominican sushi rolls, served by “the Ninja” himself.

Where Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird created their "heroes in a half shell" and founded Mirage Studios.

Here lies Hattori Hanzō, a samurai who is remembered as a legendary ninja in today’s popular culture.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

An eerie maze of industrial factories looks like something out of a dystopian sci-fi.

A small island with no monkeys but plenty of military ruins.

The last remaining pre-dreadnought battleship in the world has been a museum for nearly a century.

This tiny museum immortalizes the birthplace of an iconic Chinese-Korean noodle dish.

Amid miles of wooded trails lies the story of one of America’s earliest free Black communities.

Each tide uncovers a shoreline where Virginia’s prehistoric past washes up.

A centuries-old Virginia mill pond is also an outdoor classroom where history is told through recipes.

This park offers one of the easiest ways to paddle into a Chesapeake landscape that has looked much the same for centuries.

Rowdy rebels fortified this home during the first popular uprising in United States history.

The only remaining building from the original 1800 Isle of Wight Courthouse Complex

This one-room schoolhouse was revitalized in 2007 as a museum focusing on the education of Black children during the early 20th-century.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

One of the few remaining Rosenwald Schools left in Virginia.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

Yorktown’s grandest colonial home still wears the scars of the siege that helped end the American Revolution.

Some museums preserve beautiful things; this museum preserves hard work.

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.