Places jilliangbradshaw5 Wants to Go

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

A no-frills cinephile haven known for showing offbeat, underseen films.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

Check out the underground party scene at the "Burning Man of Brooklyn."

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Those belting out show tunes in this West Village piano bar might not realize it marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

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