Places roguetitan Wants to Go

Serve yourself from the heaping carts piled with bamboo steamers at what may be Hong Kong’s oldest dim sum parlor.

This cha chaan teng’s pineapple buns are so sought-after that they sell 5,000 a day.

This no-frills joint has some of the most sublime Cantonese barbecue in town.

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

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.

The last of a gourmet supermarket chain, this store helped spark California's Food Revolution.

This fountain has a growing (animal) population, and might also be growing in size.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!

This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

A professional special effects makeup artist’s collection of horror creatures and one-of-a-kind recreations on display in downtown Boulder City.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.