Places jivie4 Wants to Go

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

Venice's island of the dead.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

A century-old magnolia tree is the only living landmark tree in New York City.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

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

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

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

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

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

This park contains one of the largest concentrations of cedar glades, a unique and rare ecosystem.