Places bryanwoerner Wants to Go

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

This unusual subway stop was originally a real estate office.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

You can row a boat through this ancient underground reservoir.

One of the world's richest men bought this former paper factory and transformed it into a mall.

A vault of safe-deposit boxes in an old bank has been repurposed as a time capsule of Hispanic culture.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

This repurposed church offers a more literal way to get closer to the heavens.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

One of Mexico's rare urban natural parks features waterfalls and a working fish farm.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

The way these carnivorous dinosaurs are posed is an homage to a classic work of paleoart.

A whopping 14,000 copper coins cover this miniature fighter jet.

A monument to the more than one million enslaved Africans deported from the port of Ouidah.

A relic from a forgotten bakery chain still spins atop a diner.

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

A relief that wraps around the concourse of Los Angeles's World Trade Center marks one of the city's failed urban design plans.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.