Places gatorskulls Wants to Go

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.

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

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.

A collaborative art project that transformed a neighborhood in NYC's Queens.

A room hidden behind a swinging shelf in the children's section.

A historic recreation of the golden age of the Erie Canal, abandoned for some time, slowly being restored.

The great American road trip, but smaller.

The floor-to-ceiling collection in an old factory is a unique alternative to stuffy galleries.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

A preserved factory in the "Home of the Carrousel" is now a museum dedicated to the classic wooden ride.

Micro-distillery in Brooklyn produces New York’s first homemade rum since Prohibition.

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

Offbeat arts organization that hosts exhibitions, events, and explorations.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.