Places Karin Kross Wants to Go

This micro-industry of Latino cuisine along Red Hook's Ball Fields represents a victory in a food fight with the city.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

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

A famous songsmith's custom piano, dubbed "High Society," is hidden just out of sight in one of New York's finest hotels.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

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

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

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

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

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

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 way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

This lavish room in a New York City mansion is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

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

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.