Places frabuleuse Wants to Go

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

Hundreds of antique bank vault locks on display in New York City.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

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

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A huge resale shop for the cast-offs of the film & television industry.

Risk arrest while partying to fund art.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

Micro-distillery in Brooklyn produces New York’s first homemade rum since Prohibition.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.