Places EB Savage Wants to Go

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

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

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

The sculpture's largest spire points directly toward the North Star.

American artist J. Alden Weir purchased this 60-acre estate for $10 and a painting.

Sip coffee and talk politics at this landmark cafe in Astoria's Little Egypt, a contender for the title of America's first hookah bar.

A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.

Beer lovers thirsty for knowledge can now visit a museum devoted to the world's largest hop-growing region.

One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

A nourishing complex of found object art, paintings, and sculptures that celebrate key figures in Black history.

Asheville, North Carolina, was the the second place in the world to enjoy Kentucky Fried Chicken's secret recipe.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.