Places akelleya Wants to Go

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

An 1883 schoolhouse now home to collective of artists.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

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.

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

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

This giant boulder is sandwiched between apartment complexes in upper Manhattan.

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

This recipe is set in stone.

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.

Cheap pizza and all of your naughty bedroom needs housed in a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture.

A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

One Brooklyn man's collection of life-size fiberglass statues has taken over his entire yard.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.