Places dmichele30 Wants to Go

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

This monument is dedicated to Balto, the heroic Alaskan sled dog.

An upstate New York garage advertises its services by literally putting the automobile above all else.

This sprawling taxidermy collection celebrates the art and history of sport hunting.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

Check out the underground party scene at the "Burning Man of Brooklyn."

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

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

New York's oldest magic store.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

A classic roadside attraction on Vermont's historic Route 5.

This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.