Paris, France
Statue Le Rhinoceros
A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Paris, France
Gustave Eiffel's Secret Apartment
High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.
Paris, France
Shakespeare and Company
This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.
Paris, France
Foucault’s Pendulum
Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.
Paris, France
Deyrolle Taxidermy
Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.
Hardeeville, South Carolina
Thelma and Louise
A pink and gray pair of pachyderms advertise a fireworks shop.
New York, New York
Onieals Grand Street Bar
A prohibition era watering hole for the police.
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
Edward Mooney House
Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.
New York, New York
Chinatown's Bloody Angle
Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.
New York, New York
Tompkins Square Temperance Fountain
A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.
New York, New York
Hare Krishna Tree
One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.
New York, New York
Slocum Memorial Fountain
Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.
New York, New York
Lenin Statue at Red Square
Salute the leader of the proletariat.
New York, New York
The Location of Paul's Boutique
The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.
New York, New York
Sidewalk Subway Map
Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.
New York, New York
41 Cooper Square
This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.
New York, New York
Houston Bowery Art Wall
This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.
New York, New York
The Manhattan Well Murder
A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.
New York, New York
New York Marble Cemetery
A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."
Dublin, Ireland
Dublin General Post Office
The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.
Dublin, Ireland
The Famine Memorial in Dublin
The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.
Corofin, Ireland
The Burren
A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.
Wicklow, Ireland
The Round Tower of Glendalough
This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.
