Places hopemch Wants to Go

This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

HBO series' stage tucked away in a Greenpoint lot is the largest theatrical set of its kind in the United States.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

Collect holy water from a Bronx grotto.

Brooklyn's Barkaloo Cemetery is the resting place of a scant two bodies.

The floor-to-ceiling collection in an old factory is a unique alternative to stuffy galleries.

Historic Greenpoint theater turned roller disco, then chain pharmacy, and now Sweetgreen.

Recovered suit of a cannibalistic West African gang.

A collaborative art project that transformed a neighborhood in NYC's Queens.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.

The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.

This whimsically unique butterfly farm focuses solely on creating habitats for the gentle insects.

An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.

The Underground Railroad passed right through this historic Brooklyn Heights church.

Manhattan's deadly West Side railroad, which killed hundreds of New Yorkers, is remembered by this simple plaque.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.