Places brookesheree Wants to Go

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

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

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

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

Balanced rock sculptures pay tribute to a murdered conservationist and his pioneer wife.

This abandoned hospital is one of the most haunted places in Costa Rica.

A secret climbing tree hides along the side of a Costa Rican road.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.

This Quebec estate is home to the elaborate gardens of a self-taught horticulturist.

The final resting place of the businessman-turned-astronomer who helped discover Pluto stands near his observatory.

The eroded core of an ancient volcano is now accessible by a short hike.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.