Places flblom Wants to Go

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

The great American road trip, but smaller.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

An illegally built ramshackle mansion tucked in the middle of Brooklyn is now being turned into condominiums.

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

The centuries-old trees are draped with Spanish moss to make them look like wizened elders.

A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.

Walking around West Harlem reveals a scavenger hunt of beautiful bird murals.

This hilltop warren of monastic dwellings is the result of centuries worth of Mongol attacks.

A collaborative art project that transformed a neighborhood in NYC's Queens.

The mysterious image is believed to show Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, in a beautiful blue dress.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

High atop a Mexican rainforest mountain, this ancient pyramid once drew pilgrims countries away.

Eternal flame said to be a Hindu Goddesses fiery tounge.