Places claracecile Wants to Go

These century-old townhouses contain some of the first car garages built in the United States.

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

A series of fish plaques that are embedded in the malls of Ocean Parkway.

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

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

Enter the deli, walk until you hit the taxidermy, then order some hot, homey guisado.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

This controversial statue has migrated twice in its life.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

Where infamous mobster and leader of Murder Inc. Albert Anastasia made his home.

What’s a sure fire way to end up in jail in New York in the 1920s? Peddling bad moonshine.

This unusual apartment building may be Brooklyn's own version of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

Unrefined, uneven, and unstable—this is the real McCoy of Pakistani suspension bridges.

Abandoned Japanese ghost town gives a glimpse into what our own metropolises may leave behind.