Places jeffquinton Wants to Go

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.

2,000 barrels of aging beer hidden in a warehouse at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

A big shiny gin and whiskey distillery in Sunset Park.

This recipe is set in stone.

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.

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

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

The most confusing clock in New York.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

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

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.