San Francisco, California
Drawn Stone
Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco Botanical Garden
Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.
San Francisco, California
Palace of Fine Arts
The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.
San Francisco, California
Paxton Gate
A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.
San Francisco, California
Japanese Tea Garden
Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.
San Francisco, California
Camera Obscura & Holograph Collection
A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.
San Francisco, California
Garden of Fragrance
Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers
Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.
Vienna, Austria
Globe Museum
Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.
Vienna, Austria
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library)
The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.
Vienna, Austria
Bestattungsmuseum (Vienna Undertakers' Museum)
Collection dedicated to funeral rites, equipment, and mourning rituals of the Viennese.
Permanently Closed
Brooklyn, New York
Red Hook Bait and Tackle Shop
A Red Hook dive bar that is holding onto its roots.
Permanently Closed
Brooklyn, New York
Broken Angel
An illegally built ramshackle mansion tucked in the middle of Brooklyn is now being turned into condominiums.
Brooklyn, New York
Morbid Anatomy Library & Giftshop
A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories
Permanently Closed
Brooklyn, New York
Film Biz Recycling
A huge resale shop for the cast-offs of the film & television industry.
Brooklyn, New York
The Red Hook Stores
A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn Battery Tunnel
The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.
Brooklyn, New York
Jalopy Theatre and School of Music
A community theatre in Brooklyn that brings Country to New York and New York to Country.
Brooklyn, New York
Hoyt-Schermerhorn Subway Station
Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.
Brooklyn, New York
The Coignet Stone Company Building
New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.
Brooklyn, New York
New York Dock Co. buildings
Two monstrous warehouses. One now holds priceless works of art, the other stands abandoned and dilapidated.
Brooklyn, New York
Pioneer Works
An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.
Permanently Closed
Brooklyn, New York
Meserole Theatre
Historic Greenpoint theater turned roller disco, then chain pharmacy, and now Sweetgreen.
Brooklyn, New York
Sunny's Bar
Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.
