Places BeKa211 Wants to Go

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

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

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

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

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

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

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

Stunningly detailed mosaics in a New York subway station bring life to the Weimaraners of artist William Wegman's work—and to thousands of commutes.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

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

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Enjoy a slice while browsing the world's largest collection of pizza memorabilia.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

Go take a picture with the inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.