Amsterdam, Netherlands
Electric Ladyland: The Museum of Fluorescent Art
The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.
Places Kris Wants to Go
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Butte, Montana
The Berkeley Pit
New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.
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.
Queens, New York
Home for Retired Playground Animals
A menagerie of concrete animals brought together from across New York City's parks.
Brooklyn, New York
The Tomb of Jane Griffith
A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.
New York, New York
Rivers Cosmogram
A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.
New York, New York
Flying Carpet Over Isfahan
A controversial magical figure is hidden within a diorama of the city.
New York, New York
7000 Oaks
Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.
New York, New York
New York Produce Exchange Property Marker
A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.
Brooklyn, New York
Monsignor McGolrick Park
Once called Winthrop Park in 1889, home to a decidedly sexy tribute to the Monitor vs. Merrimac battle.
New York, New York
Locomotive Lawn
This diesel train serviced the Brooklyn waterfront for more than three decades.
Huntington Station, New York
Walt Whitman's Birthplace
The famed poet was born in 1819 in a farmhouse built by his father.
Brooklyn, New York
BAM Hamm Archives
A collection of playbills, photographs, and other memorabilia from the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Fire Island, New York
Sunken Forest
A rare forest habitat nestled behind two sand dunes.
Bronx, New York
Van Cortlandt Burial Ground
A colonial family tomb that once doubled as New York City’s secret records vault.
New York, New York
The Brill Building
Some of the world’s most popular songs came out of this building.
New York, New York
The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation
The studio and home of one of America’s preeminent mid-century sculptors.
New York, New York
Ancient Egyptian Beef Shoulder
Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.
Mamaroneck, New York
The Seely House
The "Skinny House" is made from scrap, salvage, and a neighbor’s kindness.
Irvington, New York
The Armour-Stiner Octagon House
This fancifully decorated Victorian home in New York’s Hudson Valley is the only known fully domed octagonal residence in the United States.
Yonkers, New York
Lenoir Preserve
A beautiful, historic location open to the public.
Garrison, New York
Manitoga
This sprawling woodland estate was the brainchild of iconic American industrial designer Russel Wright.
New York, New York
Plaque of Nikola Tesla on Radio Wave Building
The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.
New York, New York
New York's Hidden Tropical Forest
A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.
