Places amandagresik Wants to Go

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

An old drug store full of mortars and pestles, pill-making machines, and medicines reputed to cure most any illness.

A memorial to a giant seabird that was hunted to extinction.

The largest canoe collection in the world—and the most Canadian museum ever.

The purported world's shortest international bridge connects a homeowner in Canada to his backyard in New York.

Canada's oldest railway tunnel is illuminated in a rainbow of color as it passes under the streets of this small city.

While this is positively the smallest library in Canada, it aspires to be the smallest in the world.

This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.

Cliffs that hold fossils, including the earliest known reptile, dating back more than 300 million years.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A collection of 4,000 thimbles that's more versatile than one might imagine.

In the back of a bustling factory lurks a quiet museum honoring the history of Canadian sugar manufacturing.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.