Places babewithclaws Wants to Go

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

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

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

Become a prohibition rebel.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

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

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

New York's oldest magic store.

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.