Places aestheticsnafu Wants to Go

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

These ornate manhole covers were used for a now-forgotten purpose.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.

This recipe is set in stone.

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.

This elaborate tunnel is the first structure composed of cast concrete in the United States.

This striking arch, one of the first architectural elements constructed in Prospect Park, was recently restored to its original glory.

Amid skyscrapers and traffic exists this unique aquatic ecosystem.

The lesser-known Alice sculpture of Central Park dedicated to the “godmother of American children.”

The collection is exhibited in a Staten Island building modeled on traditional Himalayan architecture.

A former Tibetan monk made a name for himself selling some of the best beef momos in New York.

Feast on some of the finest momos in all of Queens.

A menagerie of concrete animals brought together from across New York City's parks.

Try an original egg cream at this museum located inside one of the last surviving old-fashioned seltzer factories in America.

Wooden pavers represent a 17th-century barrier that gave Wall Street its name.