Places epfromer Wants to Go

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

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

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

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

A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

During an annual Catholic feast in this tiny Spanish village, men dressed as devils leap over rows of babies to cleanse them of sin.

A stone slab in Madrid marks the point from which the distances of Spain's national roads are measured.

12th-century holy complex shares land with a natural park full of heavenly waterfalls and raptors.

Geological storytelling.

An ancient Roman theatre restored to its former glory in the Spanish city of Cartegena.

Earth's rocky history has rarely glittered so brightly as it does in this Spanish museum.

Giant granite sculptures representing family on the northern coast of Spain.

This religious complex carved into a cliff is steeped in legends of miraculous stags and the Holy Grail.

This quaint Spanish village agreed to be painted blue as a marketing stunt but found that they preferred it that way.

Mine shafts and hard pastries await visitors at this massive mountain of salt.

"Alleys of Stone" form natural mazes in Spanish natural park.