Places ghoulfiend Wants to Go

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

This pedestrian walkway cuts through a cemetery and over several burial vaults.

The painting on an aptly named street honors the 1980s slasher movie.

Perhaps the most storied New York City eatery, Delmonico’s reshaped American restaurants.

Coney Island’s last surviving haunted ride.

New York's transit system peddles terrible food in limited windows—this restaurant is a rare exception.

Enter the deli, walk until you hit the taxidermy, then order some hot, homey guisado.

An everyday Jackson Heights bodega conceals a Mexican seafood paradise.

This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.

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

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

One Brooklyn man's collection of life-size fiberglass statues has taken over his entire yard.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

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.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.