Places roadtriptammy Wants to Go

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Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

A library of only unpublished manuscripts.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

The first railway tunnel to cross the Continental Divide and, at 11,523 feet, was once the highest railroad tunnel in the world.

This otherwise unremarkable ski town building marks the site of Butch Cassidy's first robbery.

Toss a Frisbee through the ruins of this Colorado gold mining town.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

This hot dog-shaped diner has moved all around Colorado, but has never been to New York.

A collection of fading fantasy tchotchkes lines this dirt road in the Colorado wilderness.

A recreation of an Old West apothecary full of curios.

A glimpse of a waterfall is reached by a steel catwalk along a slot canyon located in an Ouray city park.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.