Brooklyn, New York
Steinberg Sculpture Garden
A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Brooklyn, New York
Site of the Dongan Oak
The site of a fallen tree that protected Americans from British forces during the American Revolution.
Vernazza, Italy
Cinque Terre
Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.
Chicago, Illinois
Thorne Miniature Rooms
Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.
New York, New York
Roosevelt Island Cat Sanctuary
The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.
New York, New York
Strecker Memorial Laboratory
Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.
New York, New York
The Ziegfeld Head
The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.
New York, New York
Antioch Chalice
Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.
New York, New York
Hall of North American Mammals
Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.
New York, New York
Flying Carpet Over Isfahan
A controversial magical figure is hidden within a diorama of the city.
Bologna, Italy
Relics in the Basilica of San Domenico
A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.
Verona, Italy
Whale Bone of Arco della Costa
A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.
Verona, Italy
Juliet's Balcony
Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.
Denver, Colorado
The Terrorium Shop
A beautiful combination of living flora with preserved bones covers the shelves of this shop.
Brooklyn, New York
The Red Hook Stores
A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.
Estes Park, Colorado
The Stanley Hotel
Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."
Queens, New York
TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport
This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.
Munich, Germany
Rathaus-Glockenspiel
Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Oudemanhuispoort
An ancient passage filled with stalls selling used books, once frequented by Vincent Van Gogh.
New York, New York
The Statue of Roscoe Conkling
A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.
New York, New York
Relics of the IRT 14th Street-Union Square Subway Local Platform
Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.
New York, New York
Harry Jenning's Rat Pit of the Five Points
This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.
New York, New York
New York Marble Cemetery
A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."
New York, New York
REI's Wall of Litho Stones
A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.
