Places alessandralee Wants to Go

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

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

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

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

Launch vegetables using oversized slingshots at this Fingerlakes winery's roadside attraction.

A bar, burger joint, and arcade housed in a late 19th-century church building.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

This 19th-century Hamptons windmill was once home to modernist painter Agnes Pelton.

A historic Black graveyard hidden in the parking lot of one of America's largest malls.

A fire station-turned-church-turned-museum dedicated to the work of seminal light artist Dan Flavin.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

This once sprawling resort now sits abandoned, filled with graffiti and vibrant colors from an era long passed.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

Underneath the bustling city streets, a hydroponic farm grows unique herbs in an urban oasis.

This edgy museum will whet your appetite for the industrial history of Western New York.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.

The quarry was abandoned over 100 years ago, after a massive ammunition explosion ended in tragedy.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

This hidden oasis features a stunning view of the Hudson River and the Palisades from a castle-like museum.

This New York estate was designed to resemble a medieval Scottish castle.