Places hapichapi Wants to Go

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

The saddest little diner in New York.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

A huge resale shop for the cast-offs of the film & television industry.

On the top floor of an upscale department store stands a lavish restaurant housed in a replica of a luxury French dining car.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

This picturesque cottage was the site of Ulysses S. Grant’s final and perhaps most important campaign.

Take a trip back to the 1950s and the heyday of the road trip along Historic Route 20.

Fake subway tiles were installed to cover a design that resembled the Confederate flag—it's unclear if the resemblance was intentional.

The only remaining Jewish congregation in Greenpoint.

A tiny village in Upstate New York ushered in the precursor to drive-in movies.

This museum pays tribute to the largest group in the Iroquois Confederacy.

After surviving abandonment, this powerful Latin American mural is alive again.

Stunningly detailed mosaics in a New York subway station bring life to the Weimaraners of artist William Wegman's work—and to thousands of commutes.

Adherence to strict Jewish laws is required to enter this ultra-conservative New York village.

A beautiful, historic location open to the public.

Hike deep into the woods to explore this Gilded Age masterpiece.

An unassuming stone building houses New York City's oldest seismic station almost 30 feet below the Bronx.

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.

A temple belonging to the largest Buddhist order in South Korea nestled in the middle of New York City.