What’s really cool is how you could use these maps to see the sights in any city without opening something like a guidebook at all. You can quickly get a sense of which places are the most ...

But life in most of the city has been largely unaffected. Los Angeles is a sprawling metropolitan area that’s home to nearly 13 million people.

To read why one of these places is the best, head over to our Best of NYC homepage. This map represents only a selection (although a majority) of our Best of NYC winners.