Places terrencesh Wants to Go

A dazzling work by a Pop art legend hangs in one of the world’s busiest subway stations.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.

Take in a rare, face-to-face glimpse of Lady Liberty at this tucked away Red Hook park.

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

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

Stunningly detailed mosaics in a New York subway station bring life to the Weimaraners of artist William Wegman's work—and to thousands of commutes.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

This haunting monument honors the victims of 9/11.

After surviving abandonment, this powerful Latin American mural is alive again.

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

The only gallery in New York dedicated to olfactory art and the exploration of scent in art.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

Eastern Canada's ocean playground.

One of Canada's tiniest museums tackles the world's largest turtle.

The city of Halifax still bears the scars of the largest explosion prior to the atomic bomb.

Housed inside a replica church, its collection honors the Black community displaced by the Halifax government.

This whimsical outsider art wall holds tiny treasures donated by the local community.

Five mythical trolls have taken up residence in woods and hidden on paths at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.

This sprawling collection hides many charms.

Twice a day, the water of the Petitcodiac River flows upstream in a surfable wave.