From city streets to open fields, the world is covered in sound. We've collected some of it for a series of "audio snapshots" that let you experience a place or event. It's the next best thing to being there.
Allegory of the Valentine's Day Cave
By France Costrel
Platonic love with Buddha...
Glass House
By Anna Rothschild
You don't need an alarm clock when you live next to a recycling center.
The Greatest Show on Earth
By Ariel Bleicher
On Friday nights, twelve of the world's greatest players battle it out at New York's newest and liveliest ping pong lounge.
The Game Room
By Charlie Hoxie
As advanced as home video games get, there will always be a place for the arcade and its vibrant atmosphere.
Man Playing Plastic Buckets: Outside The Plaza Hotel, New York City
By Allison Fishman
In-tunes
By Becky Flaum
Sometimes your own ipod is psychic, but a coffee shop in the East Village gets it right every time for an entire room of people and its totally random.
Vital Signs
By Alyson Kenward
Chemicals are kept alive in a laboratory with the life support of a mechanical breathing box.
Water Music
By Colin Beattie
Even in an era of high-tech navigation systems, a network of floating gongs and bells is vital to safe sailing through New York Harbor.