New York, New York
Roosevelt Island Octagon Tower
A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.
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Places this traveler has marked as been there.
New York, New York
Sylvan Terrace
A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.
New York, New York
New Yorker Hotel
The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.
Brooklyn, New York
Leroy's Place
This interactive gallery makes you feel like you've stepped into a fantasy world filled with whimsical monsters.
Queens, New York
TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport
This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.
New York, New York
Roosevelt Island Cat Sanctuary
The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.
Boston, Massachusetts
Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum
Interactive museum complete with costumed re-enactors and the only known surviving chest from the Boston Tea Party.
Boston, Massachusetts
Museum of Bad Art
Museum dedicated to awful artwork.
New York, New York
Graffiti Hall of Fame
For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."
New York, New York
Hamilton Grange
The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.
New York, New York
Broken Kilometer
One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Elfreth's Alley
This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.
Staten Island, New York
Alice Austen House
The pioneering photographer's prints are immortalized inside her childhood home.
Chicago, Illinois
Music Box Theatre
A historic 1929 art-house cinema that features independent, classic, cult, and foreign films in an atmospheric setting.
Washington, D.C.
The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum
Garments from across the globe call this hidden gem home.
New York, New York
Lichtenstein Subway Mural
A dazzling work by a Pop art legend hangs in one of the world’s busiest subway stations.
Brooklyn, New York
Spook-A-Rama
Coney Island’s last surviving haunted ride.
Queens, New York
Fountain of the Planet of the Apes
No monkeying around, this fountain was really named after the classic sci-fi film.
New York, New York
African Burial Ground National Monument
This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.
Brooklyn, New York
Endale Arch
This striking arch, one of the first architectural elements constructed in Prospect Park, was recently restored to its original glory.
New York, New York
C-Squat
A notorious punk house turned co-op.
New York, New York
Museum at Eldridge Street
America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.
New York, New York
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace Museum
The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.
New York, New York
Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space
A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.
