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Brooklyn, New York
Cacao Prieto
Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.
Places jazbek Wants to Go
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
New York, New York
Delmonico's Pompeii Columns
Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.
New York, New York
The Standard Oil Building
This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.
New York, New York
The New York New Church
Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.
New York, New York
The Old McGraw-Hill Building
Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch were all born in this art deco Manhattan masterpiece.
New York, New York
The Wishbones of McSorley's Old Ale House
Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.
New York, New York
Governors Island
Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.
New York, New York
The Daily News Building Globe
Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.
New York, New York
Chinatown's Bloody Angle
Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.
New York, New York
The Woolworth Building
Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.
Haines Falls, New York
Kaaterskill Falls and the Bayard of Dogs
A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.
New York, New York
The New York Earth Room
A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.
Isle of Staffa, Scotland
Fingal's Cave
This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.
Coleford, England
Puzzlewood
The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."
New York, New York
Dream House
La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.
New York, New York
Old City Hall Station
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?
Waimangu, New Zealand
Lake Rotomahana
The once and future home of New Zealand's famed Pink and White Terraces.
Waimangu, New Zealand
Frying Pan Lake
Deadly scalding and one of the largest hot springs in the world.
Bacalar, Mexico
Laguna de Bacalar (Lake of Seven Colors)
At least seven hues of blue and turquoise make this freshwater lagoon unique.
Tepoztlán, Mexico
Tubohotel
Concrete construction materials turned into a fashionable capsule hotel in rural Mexico.
Zihuatanejo, Mexico
The Parthenon of El Negro
A notoriously corrupt Chief of Police's deteriorating Greek-themed playhouse.
Guanajuato, Mexico
Alley of the Kiss
A Mexican Romeo-and-Juliet-esque legend has given this super-narrow alleyway a reputation for romance.
San Antonio, Mexico
La Lobera
Huge hole looks down onto an underground beach populated with sea lions.
