Places clpartin Wants to Go

The most radioactive spot in New York City can also fix your muffler.

Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.

If you were standing here on October 5th, 1950, you'd be dead.

A 9-story, poured concrete structure which was used as a glue factory with an indelible smell.

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.

Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.

Storage warehouse of the rich and famous.

Where the legendary Orson Welles got his theatrical start before "Citizen Kane."

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

A large boulder marks the place where the island of Manhattan was purportedly "sold" to the Dutch.

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.

The graveyard holds the remains of Irish immigrants who arrived in Queens after fleeing the Great Famine.

Once called Winthrop Park in 1889, home to a decidedly sexy tribute to the Monitor vs. Merrimac battle.

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

An activist who committed her life to peace and women's suffrage.

This unusual subway stop was originally a real estate office.

This Manhattan skyscraper is a reminder of the brief but glorious age of urban air taxis.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.

This recently uncovered ad for Lindsay's run at Mayor in 1965 had been hiding for decades underneath a billboard.

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

Built as a home for the Union Porcelain magnate in 1867, now the Greenpoint Reformed Church and home to a ceramic mystery.

This abandoned artificial island off the coast of New York City is now home to dozens of harbor seals.