Places AFizzle Wants to Go

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

The most confusing clock in New York.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.