About
Google Maps tells you where things are. Visit Nice Things tells you which things are worth visiting.
A place does not need to be famous. It simply needs to be worth the visit.
The VNT Edit
The archive is edited, not aggregated. Every place — a wine bar in the East Village, a bookshop off Bond Street, a tea house on 9th — is chosen because it feels like somewhere: the room, the light, the thing they do better than anyone nearby. There are no ratings, no rankings, no sponsored listings, and there never will be. New York, London and Paris so far; more cities as they earn their place.
My Map — your own layer
Discoveries die in screenshots, starred maps and Instagram saves. My Map is where they live instead: one account, the same map on your phone and your laptop, signed in with nothing but an emailed link.
+ Save a Place takes almost anything:
- — a Google Maps link
- — an Instagram post that tags five restaurants
- — an article or Substack guide, even in flowing prose
- — a pasted list of names, or just one name
Each place comes back verified against Google Maps — real address, neighbourhood, a gallery of photos to pick a cover from, or upload your own — and files into a map of your making: East Village Saturday, Tokyo Someday, New York Bakeries.
Nothing is locked in. A map can be shared as a link anyone can open, exported straight into Google Maps, or printed as a PDF worth handing to a friend at dinner.