Places bibliobecca Wants to Go

Nine nice parcels of land along a flight path offer a quiet respite... until a plane soars overhead.

Behind these delicious arepas lies a true New York success story.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

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

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Some of the world’s most popular songs came out of this building.

This Bronx apartment building is officially recognized as the birthplace of hip-hop.

A menagerie of concrete animals brought together from across New York City's parks.

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

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

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.

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

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

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

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

For centuries, the largest Arab bathhouse in Spain was hidden under a palace.

Wander along roughly a mile of paths in what may be the world's largest forest labyrinth.