Places jeffquinton Wants to Go

The mosaic Star of David at the front of this store hints that it's no ordinary Italian grocer.

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

The site where Joe Gallo kept his guns, pet lion, and launched an all out mob war in 1960s Brooklyn.

A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.

One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.

The humble fort that saved Washington.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

This vacant church in the Financial District was once the heart of New York's first Syrian immigrant community.

A world of whimsy and wonder aboard a one of a kind historic landmark vessel.

Where infamous mobster and leader of Murder Inc. Albert Anastasia made his home.

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

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

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

The famous facade of Grand Central Terminal hides a regulation tennis court—and it's not the first one.

Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.

These historic buildings once housed the headquarters of one of the most infamous gangs of New York.

The mass grave of a heroic Revolutionary War regiment sits below an empty lot near the Gowanus Canal.