Places The Sitch Wants to Go

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

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

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

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

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

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

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

The world's largest prehistoric copper mine had 30,000 animal bones scattered throughout the maze of passageways.

This subterranean funicular is one of the world's smallest subways.

Biblical beasts and endangered animal preservation come together in this Israeli zoo.

The tallest waterfall in the Judean Desert is named for its connection to a biblical figure.

Submerged ruins of a Neolithic coastal settlement, where houses, wells, graves and skeletons have been unearthed.

Squeezing inside this deep, narrow canyon reveals a festival of desert colors.

Sitting right on the border between East and West Jerusalem this modern art museum is in itself a symbol of Israel's hoped-for unity.

This amazing ancient cave was kept secret for seven years to protect it from the public.