Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

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

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

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

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

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

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A massive collection of petroglyphs dating back some 40,000 years.

A unique museum dedicated to culture and artistry of carpet weaving.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

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

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

A five-square-mile slice of Spain on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa.

Morocco's largest Jewish cemetery.

Morocco’s modern capital was once a haven for Barbary pirates, who went so far as to establish a republic of their own.

The oldest known university in the world is in Fez, Morocco.

God's Saharan sandbox of wrath.