New York, New York
Chester A. Arthur Inauguration and Death House
The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
New York, New York
The Remnants of Tin Pan Alley
The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.
New York, New York
'Life Underground' Sculptures
An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.
New York, New York
The 'Goodnight Moon' House (Cobble Court)
Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.
New York, New York
The High Line
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
New York, New York
Slocum Memorial Fountain
Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.
New York, New York
Tompkins Square Temperance Fountain
A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.
New York, New York
Hare Krishna Tree
One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.
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
Lenin Statue at Red Square
Salute the leader of the proletariat.
New York, New York
284 Broome Street
The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.
New York, New York
Museum at Eldridge Street
America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.
New York, New York
Titanic Memorial
Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.
New York, New York
Rudolph de Harak Digital Clock
The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.
New York, New York
Brooklyn Bridge Fallout Shelter
There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.
New York, New York
The Sugar House Prison Window
An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.
New York, New York
Harry Jenning's Rat Pit of the Five Points
This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.
Queens, New York
Ridgewood Reservoir
This former water source for the City of Brooklyn is now a thriving natural wetland.
Comfort, Texas
Seashell Graves of Comfort Cemetery
No one is sure why this mysterious tradition started.
Groton, Connecticut
Mystic Pizza
This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.
Glen Rose, Texas
Ed Young Station
This abandoned building made of petrified wood was once a hotspot for buying moonshine.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Grave of Hubert H. Humphrey
Vice President Humphrey's final resting place is tucked away in this cemetery along with a few other notable figures.
Irving, Texas
'Mustangs of Las Colinas'
This strategically-placed fountain creates the magnificent illusion of mustangs galloping across a river.
Sappington, Missouri
Laumeier Sculpture Park
Giant works of art interspersed throughout meadows and woodlands offer a new discovery at every turn.
