Places Liskaliska Wants to Go

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

New York's oldest magic store.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

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

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

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

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

This bottle-shaped monument pays tribute to the Appalachian drink that changed the pace of human life.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.