Places addiemarin Wants to Go

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.

Those belting out show tunes in this West Village piano bar might not realize it marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

Sip a cappuccino in the historic cafe that introduced them to the United States.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

Ever wanted the laymen's version of your credit card fine print?

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

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

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

A plaque marks the spot on the bridge where one of the first elephants in the U.S., Little Bet, was gunned down.

Enjoy egg rolls and live music in a converted bank vault.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

The first ever diner included on the National Register of Historic Places is famous for its custard French toast.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.