New York, New York
Museum at Eldridge Street
America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
New York, New York
America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.
Hrodna, Belarus
This rare collection of human deformities displays fetuses with two faces, one eye, and "mermaid" legs.
London, England
A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.
Brussels, Belgium
A huge old mansion full of thousands of toys, each there to be used and played with.
Matera, Italy
People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.
Inuyama, Japan
An anthropological theme park that depicts the cultures of around 20 different countries.
Waimes, Belgium
The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.
London, England
The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.
New York, New York
A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.
London, England
A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.
Christchurch, New Zealand
An unusual and powerful memorial in which earthquake victims are remembered by empty white chairs.
San Marcello Pistoiese, Italy
A factory director designed what was the world's longest suspension footbridge in 1923 so his employees could get to work safely.
Tambon Rong Kwang, Thailand
The long underground cave's curiously shaped stalagmites have inspired many legends.
Vicksburg, Mississippi
The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Tokyo, Japan
Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.
Prague, Czechia
An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."
Uppsala, Sweden
The second oldest anatomical theater is housed in a museum of curiosities.
Strängnäs, Sweden
This wonky bit of historical taxidermy is experiencing a second life online.
London, England
An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.
London, England
A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.
Chislehurst, England
Shakespeare, David Bowie, Dr. Who, the Saxons, Druids and Romans are all claimed to have all made their mark on these massive man made tunnels.
London, England
Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.
Lhasa, Tibet
This Tibetan monastery has survived multiple attacks and is also a sky burial site.
Koganei, Japan
Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.