Brooklyn, New York
Digester Eggs
A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
New York, New York
6 1/2 Avenue: Manhattan’s Secret Street
Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York’s only fraction of a street.
New York, New York
Greenacre Park
Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.
New York, New York
Roosevelt Island Smallpox Hospital Ruins
A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.
Lucerne, Switzerland
Lion of Lucerne
This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.
Bern, Switzerland
Museum of Communication
Video games, body language, and postal history are all on display in this Swiss museum.
Bern, Switzerland
The Child Eater of Bern
A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.
Jerusalem, Israel
Tisch Family Zoological Park
Biblical beasts and endangered animal preservation come together in this Israeli zoo.
Be'er Sheva, Israel
Ben-Gurion National Solar Energy Center
Israel's premiere solar energy research facility provides energy to nomads.
Jerusalem, Israel
Montefiore Windmill
After over 100 years out of service this landmark windmill once again turns as a symbol of Jerusalem's self-sufficiency.
Jerusalem, Israel
Shrine of the Book
The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.
San Francisco, California
Mile Rocks Light
A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.
San Francisco, California
Ruins of the Sutro Baths
The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.
Brooklyn, New York
Yankee Ferry
A world of whimsy and wonder aboard a one of a kind historic landmark vessel.
Brooklyn, New York
Masstransiscope
A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.
New York, New York
New York City Fire Museum
A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.
New York, New York
American Numismatic Society
Play heads or tails with thousands of different coins.
Ithaca, New York
The Sagan Planet Walk
Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.
Ithaca, New York
Six Mile Creek
In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.
New York, New York
The Weathermen Townhouse Explosion
A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.
Marshall, California
The Marconi Conference Center
Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.
Permanently Closed
New York, New York
James Farley Post Office Museum
A grand New York post office that is home to mailman Santas, scraps of postal history, and a pneumatic mail system.
New York, New York
Nikola Tesla Street Corner
Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.
New York, New York
One Times Square
This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.
