Places amosner Wants to Go

The most magical part of this Latin American and Caribbean art museum is a room covered in beautiful blue tiles from floor to ceiling.

The world's oldest soul food restaurant is also one of its best.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

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

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

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

Some of the best Persian food in New York comes from the front window of an unassuming pizza shop.

Supremely flaky treats await at Amadou Ly’s boulangerie and patisserie.

Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

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

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

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

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

The cuisine at this Sheepshead Bay spot tells the story of a displaced Muslim Chinese community.

In Little Caribbean, an ice-cream shop serves up regional flavors, including soursop, Irish moss, and "greatnut."

Try an original egg cream at this museum located inside one of the last surviving old-fashioned seltzer factories in America.

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

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.