Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

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

New York's oldest magic store.

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

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

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

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

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

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of Northern New Mexico's geology.

The building stands within a quiet, postcard-perfect New Mexico village.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

You can only access this hermitage by crawling under a ledge suspended above an overhang.

This iconic rock hermitage was once the abode of a future pope.

A holy stone inside this spectacular hermitage is said to have healing properties.

The 16th-century son of Sienese nobility carved this hermitage out of volcanic rock.

When occupying Nazi troops detonated a mine below, medieval frescoes were revealed in this small cliff-side hermitage.