Places bananachan Wants to Go

Collect holy water from a Bronx grotto.

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

The loneliest island in New York.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

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

One of the last taxidermists in New York City.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

Offbeat arts organization that hosts exhibitions, events, and explorations.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

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

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.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

Oldest surviving example of a Dutch saltbox frame house in America.

“Wagon Jobber" turned smokehouse magnate's family-owned business is still going strong 100 years later.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.