Places hfienberg Wants to Go

A hidey-hole sandwiched between cellphone, DVD, and jewelry stores features Tibetan delights.

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

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

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

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

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.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.