New York, New York
The Peace Fountain at Cathedral of St. John the Divine
A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
New York, New York
Tom's Restaurant
The "Seinfeld" diner.
New York, New York
Irish Hunger Memorial
Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.
New York, New York
Pneumatic System of the New York Public Library
One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.
New York, New York
Marilyn Monroe’s Subway Grate
This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.
New York, New York
The High Line
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
Los Angeles, California
Griffith Observatory’s Tesla Coil
High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.
New York, New York
Toynbee Tiles
Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.
San Francisco, California
Yoda Fountain
There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.
San Francisco, California
The Old Ship Saloon
A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.
Cologne, Germany
Church of St. Ursula
A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.
Oakland, California
Ratto's Market & Deli
International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.
Oakland, California
Cathedral of Christ the Light
A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.
Oakland, California
Mountain View Cemetery
Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.
Berlin, Germany
Dahlem-Dorf U-Bahn Station Benches
A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.
Berlin, Germany
Berliner Unterwelten (Subterranean Berlin)
A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.
San Francisco, California
Lotta's Fountain
San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.
San Francisco, California
Corporate Goddess Sculptures
Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.
Berkeley, California
UC Berkeley's Nobel Laureate Parking Spaces
The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.
Oakland, California
Children's Fairyland
This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.
Berlin, Germany
Vestiges of the Berlin Wall
On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.
Berlin, Germany
Gärten der Welt (Gardens of the World)
Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.
Cologne, Germany
Cologne's Love Locks Bridge
Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.
Cologne, Germany
St. Petersglocke
The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.
