New York, New York
President Ulysses S. Grant's Tomb
Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
New York, New York
Please Don't Tell
Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.
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New York, New York
'The Sale of Manhattan'
Down a stairway in the East Village, you could once read a plaque describing an alternate history of a fictional version of Manhattan.
New York, New York
Kenka
Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?
New York, New York
The New York Earth Room
A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.
New York, New York
Berlin Wall Section
A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.
New York, New York
Sidewalk Subway Map
Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.
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The Evolution Store
A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.
New York, New York
Broken Kilometer
One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.
New York, New York
Dream House
La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.
New York, New York
Model Ship Collection at the South Street Seaport Museum
Set sail on a small scale.
Jersey City, New Jersey
The Colgate Clock
On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
White Sands National Park
Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.
Santo Amaro do Maranhão, Brazil
Lençóis Maranhenses Dunes
A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.
Jersey City, New Jersey
The Katyń Massacre Memorial
This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.
Jersey City, New Jersey
The Black Tom Explosion Memorial
A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.
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
Titanic Memorial
Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.
New York, New York
Delmonico's Pompeii Columns
Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.
New York, New York
The Woolworth Building
Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.
New York, New York
Trinity Place Bank Vault Bar
This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.
Detroit, Michigan
Geodesic Dome House
Concrete igloos standing across from what remains of the Michigan Central train depot.
Detroit, Michigan
Michigan Central Station
A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.
