Places clpartin Wants to Go

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.

Surrounded by low rise buildings and partially converted into an auto body shop, this marble archway is the only vestige of a forgotten Manhattan estate.

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.

This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.

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

This mysterious marker puzzles pedestrians and infuriates geographers.

A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."

A former seaside jewel built for the everyman is now simply a neglected art deco fortress.

These historic buildings once housed the headquarters of one of the most infamous gangs of New York.

Known as the "Forgotten City" it was home to industry, riots, artists, squatters, and to one of the largest single disaster fires in New York City.

A mysterious, abandoned building rotting on the Brooklyn waterfront.

A small part of lower Manhattan is actually made from a bit of England.

Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

Small monoliths of several varieties of stone sit alongside a wooded path in the Bronx.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

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

This Orthodox Church's exterior is rather unorthodox.

Walking around West Harlem reveals a scavenger hunt of beautiful bird murals.

A forgotten relic from New York's bygone trolley system hides in plain sight under a bridge.