Places bjmcdonnell Wants to Go

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

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

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

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

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

Unlock the secrets of the conjuring arts.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

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

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

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

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.

Become a prohibition rebel.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.