Places AF Wants to Go

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

Enormous one time fiber mill now houses local artists and small businesses.

This recipe is set in stone.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

A mysterious, abandoned building rotting on the Brooklyn waterfront.

Retribution for death of infamous mob boss Franie Yale was a case of mistaken identity.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

The humble fort that saved Washington.

Two monstrous warehouses. One now holds priceless works of art, the other stands abandoned and dilapidated.

Now the site of a high school, this was almost the location of the largest cathedral in the US.

This impressive mansion in Vinegar Hill has some mysterious details in its architecture.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

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

Where infamous mobster and leader of Murder Inc. Albert Anastasia made his home.

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

The mass grave of a heroic Revolutionary War regiment sits below an empty lot near the Gowanus Canal.

This 19th century brick building in Brooklyn stands out like the anachronistic landmark that it is.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

Brooklyn's Barkaloo Cemetery is the resting place of a scant two bodies.

Take in a rare, face-to-face glimpse of Lady Liberty at this tucked away Red Hook park.