Places hopemch Wants to Go

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

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

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

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

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

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

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.

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

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

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

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

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

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

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.