New York, New York
Bill's Place
This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
New York, New York
Roosevelt Island Smallpox Hospital Ruins
A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.
New York, New York
Ear Inn
One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).
New York, New York
Grand Central Oyster Bar
This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.
New York, New York
Yonah Schimmel's Knish Bakery
Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.
Riga, Latvia
The Žanis Lipke Memorial
A Latvian rescuer who saved countless lives during World War II.
Riga, Latvia
Monument to the Latvian Riflemen
A statue built to honor the elite soldiers who fought for Latvia during World War I.
Riga, Latvia
Great Choral Synagogue Memorial
A monument to the grand synagogue that stood in this space before Nazis burned it down.
New York, New York
Rucker Park
The legendary court where emerging basketball players gain their street cred.
New York, New York
Septuagesimo Uno
The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."
New York, New York
Henry Bliss Plaque
A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.
Geneva, Switzerland
Treille Promenade
One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.
Geneva, Switzerland
Brunswick Monument
An opulent monument built for a duke who donated his entire fortune to the city of Geneva.
Meyrin, Switzerland
CERN
Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.
Meyrin, Switzerland
'Wandering the Immeasurable'
CERN's beautiful, bending sculpture is a tribute to the spread of knowledge.
Basel, Switzerland
Tinguely Fountain
This artistic fountain display pays homage to this area's theatrical history.
Basel, Switzerland
Museum Tinguely
An interactive exhibition space dedicated to the kinetic sculptures of Swiss artist Jean Tinguely.
Vaduz, Liechtenstein
The Prince of Liechtenstein's Vineyard and Wine Cellar
In one of the world's smallest countries, a royal's personal winery is open to the public.
Sevelen, Switzerland
Alte Rheinbrücke (Old Rhine Bridge)
The oldest surviving wooden bridge over Rhine lets travelers cross easily from Switzerland to Liechtensten.
Bern, Switzerland
Einsteinhaus
This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.
Lucerne, Switzerland
Lion of Lucerne
This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.
Lucerne, Switzerland
Dance of Death Bridge
This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.
Como, Italy
Tempio Voltiano
Old batteries and frog skeletons reside in this lakeside monument to Alessandro Volta.
Honolulu, Hawaii
Site of the Japanese WWII Surrender
A glass display case holds the document that ended the Second World War—which one person signed on the wrong line.
