Places taylsliotta Wants to Go

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

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

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

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

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

New York's oldest magic store.

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

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

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

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

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

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

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

Travel deep inside of Europe's second largest glacier in the world's largest man-made ice cave.

This mountain fissure hides a secret path to a secluded mossy grotto within the rock itself.

A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.

At this museum in Iceland, visitors can sample fermented Greenland shark.

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.