America's greatest collection of Himalyan art - it's located in a former Barneys

Yes, it's a fact: the Rubin Museum of Art, at 150 West 17th Street in the heart of Chelsea in New York City, offers more than 1,000 sculptures, tapestries, paintings, and photographs.

The museum opened earlier this month to rave reviews after years of construction.

The collection is displayed throughout the 70,000 square feet of the six-floor museum, wrapped around a grand spiral staircase under a 25-foot-wide skylight.

On the sixth floor, for example, you find "Methods of Transcendence," a collection of Himalayan mandalas and thankgas and Buddhist statuary.

Worth a trip.