Places DaniMac Wants to Go

A wooden rollercoaster that still delivers a thrill.

Polish babkas, cheesecakes, and rose jelly-filled doughnuts are made fresh daily at this neighborhood stalwart.

Brooklyn’s wildest restaurant is serving ice cream in snail shells and marrow bones.

This Peruvian-Chinese institution has perfected the art of rotisserie chicken—alongside plantains and lo mein.

Try an original egg cream at this museum located inside one of the last surviving old-fashioned seltzer factories in America.

Get to know the plant-based fare of Chinese Buddhist monks.

Feast on some of the finest momos in all of Queens.

Staten Island's original central park is the former home of the city water supply as well as thousands of immigrant graves.

The collection is exhibited in a Staten Island building modeled on traditional Himalayan architecture.

In 1986, Keith Haring was arrested for painting this anti-drug mural on a Harlem handball court.

One man’s obsessive, 30-plus-year quest is behind the pies at this spot on the Lower East Side.

Behind these delicious arepas lies a true New York success story.

Now owned by the National Park Service, this location was once home to illegal boxing matches.

Nine nice parcels of land along a flight path offer a quiet respite... until a plane soars overhead.

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

A former Tibetan monk made a name for himself selling some of the best beef momos in New York.

This nondescript coffee shop conceals one of the wildest patisseries in New York City.

Snack on a partially gestated duck egg.

This theater opened in 1998, but both the building and the puppeteers who perform there have a distinguished history.

A temple belonging to the largest Buddhist order in South Korea nestled in the middle of New York City.

These small stands sell Malian snacks to worshippers and passersby after Friday prayers in Harlem.

Three stories above you, your salad is being grown.

Slurp sesame noodles at the third-generation family-run establishment that invented them.

A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.