Places zackofalltrades Wants to Go

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

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.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

The world’s largest collection of Tiffany glass sits in a warehouse in Queens.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

The institution is sitting on a goldmine of 21,000 paints, varnishes, pigments, and primers preserved for posterity.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

The Ryerss mansion in Burholme Park now houses a community library and a museum filled with a trove of oddities from around the world.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

Discover this sandstone alcove, a geologic wonder in southern Utah, that continues to slowly shape shift.

A mining camp built around an unexpected occurrence of silver.

A unique collection of drawings that represent Fremont Native American culture.