Places Jay Braun Wants to Go

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

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

The loneliest island in New York.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.