Places wherearewedude Wants to Go

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

This New York florist also sells traditional tofu pudding.

Rare moles meet activism at this Oaxacan eatery.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

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

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

Home to some of the last true noodle artisans in New York.

Cooks at this tiny takeout spot grind their rice flour in a stone mill each morning for perfect cheung fun.

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

Play heads or tails with thousands of different coins.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

Known as the "Grand Lady of Jersey City,” the city's first racially-integrated hotel was owned by a preacher who was, depending on who you ask, a cult leader, civil rights pioneer, or the manifestation of God.

Eccentric stone cairns built on a public New York City beach.

An isolated beacon with a history of grisly murder and a view of some of literature's greatest inspirations.

The nation's second-ever First Lady urged the founding fathers to "remember the ladies."

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.

These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history.

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.