Places michaelleejones Wants to Go

This cozy café is housed in a repurposed pharmacy originally built in 1927.

“The Place Where Food Grows Near the River” implements ancestral Indigenous agricultural techniques.

Feast on kebabs, dips, and house-made breads in the heart of Nashville’s Little Kurdistan.

Flaunt your karaoke chops at this pitch-perfect dive bar.

Feast on Caribbean classics from curry goat to black cake.

This iconic “station bento” comes in an earthenware pot you can take home and repurpose.

After fleeing the Syrian civil war, chef Malakeh Jazmati began serving exceptional renditions of her homeland's cuisine in Berlin.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

A hidey-hole sandwiched between cellphone, DVD, and jewelry stores features Tibetan delights.

A half-century-old handmade dim sum joint opens daily at 3:00 a.m.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

For a buck, students can snag freshly picked apples grown in the university orchards.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

“Wagon Jobber" turned smokehouse magnate's family-owned business is still going strong 100 years later.

This waterfront museum in Maine is dedicated to the history of the smoked-herring trade.

At this small shop off a dirt road in the forest, the specialty is eel the owner caught and smoked himself.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

After being lost for nearly a century, this historic bell finally returned home after its mysterious theft.

This stone marker honors the man who released Canada goose goslings in Fort Collins, Colorado.

A giant can of fruit cocktail is all that remains of what was once the world's largest cannery.