New York, New York
Macy's Wooden Escalators
A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
Live Oak Allée at Brookgreen Gardens
Take a stroll through this centuries-old tunnel of enormous moss-hung evergreens, nestled among the grounds of America’s first public sculpture garden.
New York, New York
New Yorker Hotel
The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.
Estes Park, Colorado
The Stanley Hotel
Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."
Seville, Spain
Tomb of Christopher Columbus
The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.
Clarence, New York
Greatbatch Barn
This exhibit pays tribute to the “humble tinkerer” who invented the implantable pacemaker.
New York, New York
Plaque of Nikola Tesla on Radio Wave Building
The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.
Elmira, New York
Mark Twain's Grave
The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.
Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
Sphinx Observatory
A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."
Paris, France
Paris Point Zero
This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.
Jamestown, New York
Lucille Ball Memorial Park
Its original statue was deemed so ugly, locals called it “Scary Lucy.”
Buffalo, New York
The Darwin D. Martin House
One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.
Chicago, Illinois
Tiffany Dome
This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.
Spring Green, Wisconsin
House on the Rock
A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.
Rochester, New York
House of Guitars
The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.
New York, New York
The Woolworth Building
Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.
Permanently Closed
New York, New York
Site of the Pan Am Helipad
This Manhattan skyscraper is a reminder of the brief but glorious age of urban air taxis.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Wanamaker Grand Court Organ
The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.
New York, New York
Long Lines Building
An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.
Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany
Ratstrinkstube Clock Tower
Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.
New York, New York
New York Federal Gold Vault
More gold than anywhere else, ever.
Palmyra, New York
Hill Cumorah
Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.
Salisbury, England
Medieval Clock
The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.
Chichen Itza, Mexico
El Caracol
No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.
