Places MarilynR Wants to Go

The smallest island in Manhattan is a manmade landfill dominated by a Buddhist peace arch.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

A famous songsmith's custom piano, dubbed "High Society," is hidden just out of sight in one of New York's finest hotels.

New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

One of the last full-orchestra recording studios in New York City and an acoustical marvel.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

This scout retreat, still in use today, was the filming location for the original “Friday the 13th” film.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.