Places Wansmaak Wants to Go

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Legend holds that a tortoise turned itself into this island to save two shipwrecked sailors.

The highest pedestrian bridge in Singapore looks like a series of undulating waves rising between two public parks.

Behind these delicious arepas lies a true New York success story.

An art installation commemorates journalist Nellie Bly's undercover reporting inside a New York asylum.

A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.

Walking around West Harlem reveals a scavenger hunt of beautiful bird murals.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

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

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

2,000 barrels of aging beer hidden in a warehouse at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

Shop while you wait for a table in this tiny Indonesian eatery within a mini-mart.

Rare moles meet activism at this Oaxacan eatery.