Places jilliangbradshaw5 Wants to Go

The Pickle Guys stand as a salt-stained holdout of the Lower East Side’s historic pushcart culture.

The studio and home of one of America’s preeminent mid-century sculptors.

Some of the world’s most popular songs came out of this building.

This stately brick building once provided supplies and equipment to lighthouses across the northeast during the 19th and 20th centuries.

A hidden Brooklyn basement gallery where two biologists nurture one of the Northeast’s rarest and most vibrant reptile collections.

An experimental, community court opened in 2000 takes a new approach to youth offenders in south Brooklyn.

This New York florist also sells traditional tofu pudding.

Perhaps the most storied New York City eatery, Delmonico’s reshaped American restaurants.

Picture yourself in history with this working collection of vintage photobooths.

How a century-old glass factory in Queens became a concert venue and arts center.

An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.

Queen Anne style apartment house built in 1886.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

A wooden rollercoaster that still delivers a thrill.

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

A Hell's Kitchen synagogue that has counted stars of stage and screen among its congregation.

This Peruvian-Chinese institution has perfected the art of rotisserie chicken—alongside plantains and lo mein.

These century-old townhouses contain some of the first car garages built in the United States.

Coney Island’s last surviving haunted ride.

The oldest private residence in New York City.

With a history dating back to Victorian times, this architectural gem is a rare New York tourist haunt worth visiting.

New York's transit system peddles terrible food in limited windows—this restaurant is a rare exception.