Places JtotheC Wants to Go

The "Seinfeld" diner.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

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

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.

The last of Philadelphia's wood-paved streets is now a landmark of terrible engineering.

It may appear to be a fancy junk yard, but each item has a story to tell and a lesson to impart.

The aggressively banal name of this underground fortress of bureaucracy does little to evoke its truly surreal existence.

America’s smallest national park site is the former residence of exiled Polish national hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko.

The only statue of its kind to commemorate Washington's beginnings as an officer of the British Colonial Militia.

The Cold War-era "underground Pentagon" is a sprawling subterranean hideaway for the Defense Department.

With 3,000 bikes on display, the world's largest bicycle museum includes some famous rarities.

Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.

The U.S. government built the million-pound stack of steel during the Space Race.