Places chloepherman Wants to Go

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.

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

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

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

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

A diminutive memorial marks the site of a successful assassination by a right-wing death squad in America's capital.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

Its diverse collection of computers and technology spans the ages.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

This beautiful stone arch bridge wasn't even expected to stand for one day, but people have been crossing it for centuries.

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.