Holbrook, Arizona
The Wigwam Village #6
A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.
Places I've been
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Holbrook, Arizona
A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.
Bryce, Utah
Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."
Vatican City
Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.
Yarmouth, Maine
The world's largest rotating world.
New York, New York
Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.
Los Angeles, California
The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.
Bilbao, Spain
Giant topiary dog once played a role in a terrorist bomb plot.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Amsterdam's Red Light District leaves little to the imagination.
Staten Island, New York
Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.
Carlstadt, New Jersey
Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.
Queens, New York
A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".
Brooklyn, New York
Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.
Queens, New York
Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.
Queens, New York
The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.
Queens, New York
The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.
Brooklyn, New York
The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.
Sleepy Hollow, New York
Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
Bronx, New York
The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.
New York, New York
Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.
New York, New York
Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.
New York, New York
Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.
New York, New York
Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.