Places JackalopeTamer Wants to Go

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

A mysterious, abandoned building rotting on the Brooklyn waterfront.

This recipe is set in stone.

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

A one-ton statue of Steve Rogers beautifies the entry to a Brooklyn Bed, Bath & Beyond.

Risk arrest while partying to fund art.

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

Micro-distillery in Brooklyn produces New York’s first homemade rum since Prohibition.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

One Brooklyn man's collection of life-size fiberglass statues has taken over his entire yard.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

An abandoned subway tunnel that could have reinvigorated Staten Island still lies somewhere beneath this Brooklyn park.

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

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

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

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.