Places ellenbwright Wants to Go

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

Where Greenpoint's first European settler—and troublemaker—made his home.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

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

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

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

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

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

A Collegiate Gothic quadrangle that surrounds an 18th century secondary school whose financing came from the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, among others.

Brooklyn vintners creating world-class wine in a city not known for its vineyards.

Dedicated to preserving the history of free Black communities in Brooklyn and beyond.

Brooklyn's Barkaloo Cemetery is the resting place of a scant two bodies.

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

The one-time office of the architectural firm that ushered in the Gilded Age is now a Club Monaco.

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