Places Nerdabella Wants to Go

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into... we can't find the words.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

Haunted Victorian house that inspired a legendary "Ghostbusters" court ruling.

This once-grand marvel of engineering is now 41 miles of scenic hiking trail.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

For 20 years, local pumpkins have met their fate on the iron fence surrounding this Cobble Hill home.

Residents of this Brooklyn neighborhood may be unaware their houses sit atop a buried trolley graveyard.

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

Nope, not Washington Irving's house.

This impressive mansion in Vinegar Hill has some mysterious details in its architecture.

This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

A forgotten relic from New York's bygone trolley system hides in plain sight under a bridge.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.