Places CanadianNomad Wants to Go

One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.

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

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

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

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

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

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

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

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

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

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

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

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.