Places afink Wants to Go

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

Staten Island's original central park is the former home of the city water supply as well as thousands of immigrant graves.

This abandoned artificial island off the coast of New York City is now home to dozens of harbor seals.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

One of the last-standing and most prominent structures from a long-lost colonial port community.

This exoskeleton was gifted to Rutgers University by Japan for its role in educating some of the first Japanese citizens to study outside the country.

Devotional offerings and pleas for intercession are left at this Depression-era shrine inside a nature preserve.

During the American Revolution, this mansion hosted failed peace talks between the British and Americans.

A mixture of strange symbols, ciphers, words and cryptograms carved in 1876 remain unsolved to this day.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

The final resting place of some of Staten Island's earliest settlers and their descendants.

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

Failed state-supported institution meant to rehabilitate students with intellectual disabilities.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

One-time largest man-made structure in the world will be a park in 30 years.

This water tower commemorates the invention of the transistor on this site in 1947.

A mysterious air force base built to resemble a Long Island fishing village.

The only museum dedicated to the history of the "Magic Lantern," a medieval slide projector.

Craggy concrete faces are hidden in the walls of this artificial cave along the San Antonio River.

For over 75 years, this cute stone statue has warmed the hearts of San Antonio.