Places catbacon Wants to Go

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

This recipe is set in stone.

A hidey-hole sandwiched between cellphone, DVD, and jewelry stores features Tibetan delights.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.

The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.

This 24-hour vending machine serves up homemade treats inspired by the local Japanese snow monkeys.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

Volunteers spent years restoring a vintage steam locomotive to operating condition.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

This extensive collection of dead bugs may be the world's most idiosyncratic and personal insect museum.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A Romanesque sanctuary of calm amid the bustle of downtown Los Angeles.

Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.