Places Cattheripper Wants to Go

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

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

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

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

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.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

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

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

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

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

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

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

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

The "Seinfeld" diner.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

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

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.