Places crankyavocado Wants to Go

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.