Places EricaInCA Wants to Go

From working out of his garage to the James Beard semifinals, one Tucson baker has kept his fan base—and his grains—local.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

A touching tribute to the "Queen of Soul."

An homage to Jackie Gleason's bus-driving character from 'The Honeymooners.'

These sculptures were designed to beautify this neighborhood when it was established in the 1940s.

The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.

A series of fish plaques that are embedded in the malls of Ocean Parkway.

The painter who popularized "bulls" and "bears" as symbols for the stock market didn't get a proper headstone for over a century.

This controversial statue has migrated twice in its life.

The longest step street in the city.

A mosaic made of materials gathered from this Brooklyn community adorns the walls of this tunnel.

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

The only gallery in New York dedicated to olfactory art and the exploration of scent in art.

This miniature village stays behind in the Breuer Building, even as the museums around it come and go.

The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.

Fake subway tiles were installed to cover a design that resembled the Confederate flag—it's unclear if the resemblance was intentional.

Devotional offerings and pleas for intercession are left at this Depression-era shrine inside a nature preserve.

This eclectic sculpture garden in Brooklyn, home to a bizarre collection of art, was once a run-down junkyard.

This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.

This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.

Stunningly detailed mosaics in a New York subway station bring life to the Weimaraners of artist William Wegman's work—and to thousands of commutes.

This elaborate tunnel is the first structure composed of cast concrete in the United States.