Places Dan Buck Wants to Go

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

Become a prohibition rebel.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

This interactive gallery makes you feel like you've stepped into a fantasy world filled with whimsical monsters.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

A curious building honoring past and current members of a historic musical comedy troupe.

The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were stars of the vaudeville circuit.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.