Places LoreofLucidite Wants to Go

This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

Opened in 1976, this monster-sized version of the fast-food franchise is sometimes called the Epic McD.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

In her ancestral home, one chef preserves ancient Filipino recipes and serves up traditional, home-cooked food to history-loving foodies.

Sidle into a side alley for a taste of sumo wrestlers' traditional hot-pot soup, in a tiny restaurant founded by a former competitor.

This roadside stand packs 300-plus varieties of tomatoes, from "Maiden's Fire" to "Kaleidoscopic Jewel."

Existing for more than four centuries, the last of Hakone’s historic teahouses serves a sweet, mold-based rice drink.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

Established over a thousand years ago, this family-run teahouse continues to serve skewers of sweet rice cake to this day.

This New York florist also sells traditional tofu pudding.

This 400-year-old sweet shop serves a delicacy some have described as "edible incense."

This kitsch-forward diner is dedicated to an almost-forgotten “one-cent” prototype of okonomiyaki.

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

Slurp sesame noodles at the third-generation family-run establishment that invented them.

All of the Malaysian sweets at this shop are made daily with a whole lot of love.

This 24-hour vending machine serves up homemade treats inspired by the local Japanese snow monkeys.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.