Places azrealumbra Wants to Go

This eatery re-creates dishes from the Ottoman Empire so you can dine like a sultan.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

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

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

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

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

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

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

An art collective teaching the more fiery, metal-y art forms.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

This mysterious series of teeny guerrilla installations sheds a whimsical light on street art in Oakland.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.