Places Chouxie Wants to Go

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

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

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

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

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A corkscrew-shaped barn in Ireland.

A petite castle folly in the English countryside.

Gothic tower mentioned in Thomas Hardy poem "The Channel Firing."

An octagonal folly tower overlooking the sea.

A tiny, forgotten park of surrealist sculptures in Angouleme.

This crumbling folly looks like an enchanted left over from Middle Earth.

Obelisks and stone pineapples in the Irish countryside.

Local legends say that fairies used to dance in the moonlight here and invite handsome young men into their grottoes.

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.

The remains of the concrete ship can be seen during low tide.

This Gothic Revival castle used as a shooting location for "The Secret Garden" and other films.

Harry Potter once visited this massive limestone cliff, which was carved by an ancient glacial river.

Although it appears ancient and mysterious, the quirky folly was actually built 200 years ago by an eccentric estate owner.