London, England
221b Baker Street
The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
London, England
Victoria & Albert Museum Dining Rooms
Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.
London, England
London Underground Labyrinths
A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.
London, England
Leighton House Museum
This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.
London, England
Queen Mary's Garden
The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."
London, England
‘Monument to the Unknown Artist’
The London statue that imitates passersby.
London, England
V&A Dog Memorials
Hidden in the courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum is a little-known tribute to two celebrity pooches.
London, England
Sir John Soane's Museum
A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.
Tokyo, Japan
The Asahi Flame
This enormous monument is one of the most iconic structures in Tokyo, rudely nicknamed "The Golden Turd."
Jaffrey, New Hampshire
Mount Monadnock
Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.
Brooklyn, New York
The Carousel in Prospect Park
You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.
New York, New York
African Elephants Diorama
This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.
New York, New York
'Dwellings' at the Breuer Building
This miniature village stays behind in the Breuer Building, even as the museums around it come and go.
New York, New York
Museum of Sex
A semi-scholarly approach to sex.
New York, New York
Hess Triangle
New York City's smallest piece of private property.
New York, New York
Tompkins Square Temperance Fountain
A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.
Brooklyn, New York
House of Wax
Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.
Brooklyn, New York
Camperdown Elm
A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.
Brooklyn, New York
Ebbets Field Apartments
The ballpark in "Pigtown" where the Brooklyn Dodgers made their name was replaced with a huge apartment complex.
Brooklyn, New York
Studebaker Building
This neo-Gothic former auto showroom is one of the few remaining reminders of Brooklyn's "Automobile Row."
Brooklyn, New York
Masstransiscope
A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.
Brooklyn, New York
The Remains of Abraham & Straus Department Store
The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.
Brooklyn, New York
Wyckoff Street Mosaic
Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.
Brooklyn, New York
Gage & Tollner
Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.
