Los Angeles, California
LAX Theme Building
This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Bridgewater, New Jersey
The Spot Where WWI Ended
American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Evans/Ellis Cemetery
Seven people are buried in the middle of what's now a movie theater parking lot.
New York, New York
Toynbee Tiles
Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.
New York, New York
Plaque of Nikola Tesla on Radio Wave Building
The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.
New York, New York
Museum of Sex
A semi-scholarly approach to sex.
New York, New York
The Hidden Holocaust Memorial of Madison Park
A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.
New York, New York
MoMath - The Museum of Mathematics
A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.
New York, New York
The General Worth Monument
This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.
New York, New York
The Statue of Roscoe Conkling
A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.
New York, New York
The Former Offices of McKim, Mead and White
The one-time office of the architectural firm that ushered in the Gilded Age is now a Club Monaco.
New York, New York
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace Museum
The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.
Jersey City, New Jersey
Jersey City and Harsimus Cemetery
Filled with history, this cemetery is maintained each summer by a few hungry goats.
New York, New York
Trinity Churchyard
This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.
New York, New York
Wall Street Bombing Scars
Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.
New York, New York
The Standard Oil Building
This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.
New York, New York
The Oldest Fence in New York
Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.
New York, New York
The American Merchant Mariner's Memorial
Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.
New York, New York
Castle Williams
In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.
New York, New York
Governors Island
Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.
Jersey City, New Jersey
The Katyń Massacre Memorial
This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.
Jersey City, New Jersey
The Colgate Clock
On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.
Jersey City, New Jersey
Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal
Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.
Jersey City, New Jersey
Morris Canal
Once considered a marvel of engineering, this 107-mile canal played an integral role in building New York City.
