Places flblom Wants to Go

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

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

Those belting out show tunes in this West Village piano bar might not realize it marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

A cargo of beautiful music.

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

Down a stairway in the East Village, you could once read a plaque describing an alternate history of a fictional version of Manhattan.

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

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

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

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

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

Over 300 wood sculptures depicting characters from Slavic, Greek and Western folk tales fill this magical garden.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.