Brussels, Belgium
Délirium Café
Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Shanghai, China
Oriental Pearl Tower
The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.
New York, New York
Giant Needle and Button
There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...
New York, New York
Union Square Metronome
The most confusing clock in New York.
New York, New York
41 Cooper Square
This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.
New York, New York
The Wishbones of McSorley's Old Ale House
Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.
New York, New York
Keen's Steakhouse
Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.
New York, New York
'Life Underground' Sculptures
An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.
New York, New York
United Palace Theatre
One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.
New York, New York
Yonah Schimmel's Knish Bakery
Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.
New York, New York
Strawberry Fields Memorial
This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.
New York, New York
Governors Island
Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.
New York, New York
Shopsin's
Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.
New York, New York
Fearless Girl Statue
Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.
New York, New York
Burger Joint
Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.
New York, New York
6 1/2 Avenue: Manhattan’s Secret Street
Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York’s only fraction of a street.
New York, New York
The High Line
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
New York, New York
The "Irving House"
Nope, not Washington Irving's house.
Permanently Closed
New York, New York
The Fillmore East
A Yiddish theater turned movie house turned rock and roll landmark turned gay disco turned bank.
New York, New York
Kenka
Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?
New York, New York
Lenin Statue at Red Square
Salute the leader of the proletariat.
New York, New York
Please Don't Tell
Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.
New York, New York
Tompkins Square Temperance Fountain
A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn's Converted Pencil Factory
Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.
