Places amber0maximal Wants to Go

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

Believe it or not, the now-ubiquitous California avocado originated in Guatemala.

Located in the mountains of Nicaragua, one man has spent most of life beautifying a massive cliff by hand.

More than 350 million years ago, western New York was covered in a vast sea. Today, you can dig up the remains of the plants and animals that lived there.

A Byzantine-style concrete artwork pays tribute to a 17th-century saint.

This sprawling collection of saintly relics includes such fascinations as wood from the Cross of Jesus and threads from Mary's veil.

This exhibit pays tribute to the “humble tinkerer” who invented the implantable pacemaker.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

A partially hidden wall graffitied by spectators of the 1976 Bicentennial, recently rediscovered.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

Guerilla gardeners reclaimed this abandoned railroad land literally putting down roots.

A collaborative art project that transformed a neighborhood in NYC's Queens.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.