Places katehawes Wants to Go

A remnant of the original World Trade Center complex continues to serve as a commuter gateway.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

One-time largest man-made structure in the world will be a park in 30 years.

This nondescript coffee shop conceals one of the wildest patisseries in New York City.

A historic Black graveyard hidden in the parking lot of one of America's largest malls.

Once a dumping spot, now a park with a kayak launch.

A menagerie of concrete animals brought together from across New York City's parks.

Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.

Want to build a wind turbine? Secede from the nation.

This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.

Depression-era fun lives on in this Harlem museum dedicated to the sport of the street.

Gang fights don't just happen on the streets, they happen under them too.

Surrounded by low rise buildings and partially converted into an auto body shop, this marble archway is the only vestige of a forgotten Manhattan estate.

For a buck, students can snag freshly picked apples grown in the university orchards.

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

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

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

Stunningly detailed mosaics in a New York subway station bring life to the Weimaraners of artist William Wegman's work—and to thousands of commutes.

A 19th-century architectural wonder designed by the "father of the skyscraper."

This fancifully decorated Victorian home in New York’s Hudson Valley is the only known fully domed octagonal residence in the United States.

This neo-Gothic former auto showroom is one of the few remaining reminders of Brooklyn's "Automobile Row."

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

The legendary court where emerging basketball players gain their street cred.

A large camera obscura, constructed entirely from digitally fabricated components.