Places afink Wants to Go

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

Fake subway tiles were installed to cover a design that resembled the Confederate flag—it's unclear if the resemblance was intentional.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

NYC's legendary underground network for bovine transportation.

The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.

Prank calls to this place, originally the "Tube Bar," inspired the creation of a Simpsons character.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

Abandoned 19th century homes once occupied by naval officers, soon to be demolished.

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

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

The French deconstructionist had a weakness for baked goods.

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

A no-frills cinephile haven known for showing offbeat, underseen films.

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

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

This unusual apartment building may be Brooklyn's own version of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

In the middle of downtown Brooklyn lies a 165 year old secret hidden right below the surface (closed to the public indefinitely).

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

A long enclosed walkway provides a daily free light show with hypnotic effects.

Hidden in a Hollywood apartment, this restaurant takes diners on a gastronomic journey through West Africa.