Places Himanshu Wants to Go

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

New York's oldest magic store.

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

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

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

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

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

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

A chessmaster's dream destination.