Places nickelcurry Wants to Go

The first pet cemetery in the United States.

A whimsical monument deep in this park commemorates the groups that helped build it.

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

The studio of Catalonia's most famous theatrical designer remains exactly as he left it.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

A single artist is behind these large-scale models made of hundreds of thousands of two-inch wooden matchsticks.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

A quiet and contemplative oasis in the middle of New York's bustle and riot.

A unique museum tells the story of the day-to-day life of World War I soldiers.