Places chovanec523 Wants to Go

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

Those belting out show tunes in this West Village piano bar might not realize it marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

This mysterious marker puzzles pedestrians and infuriates geographers.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

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

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Where one of Greenpoint's "five black arts" was practiced.

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

This unique house, the only one of its kind in Brooklyn, was built as part of a real estate developer's showcase.

Dine on old-school red sauce fare at a former mob hang out and film set for The Sopranos.

This unusual subway stop was originally a real estate office.

Once a dumping spot, now a park with a kayak launch.

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.

This elaborate tunnel is the first structure composed of cast concrete in the United States.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

Sunset Park's Guatemalan community knows to head to the back of this bodega for a taste of home.

Brooklyn's Barkaloo Cemetery is the resting place of a scant two bodies.

This striking arch, one of the first architectural elements constructed in Prospect Park, was recently restored to its original glory.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

This neo-Gothic former auto showroom is one of the few remaining reminders of Brooklyn's "Automobile Row."

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

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.