Places rubysage Wants to Go

The "Seinfeld" diner.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

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

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

New York's oldest magic store.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

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

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

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

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

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, and other Hollywood actors have resided in this picturesque Route 66 hotel.

This remote camping site offers incredible stargazing opportunities.

The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.