Places katelynhirst Wants to Go

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

A group dedicated to promoting boating, kayaking and environmental education programs.

For 20 years, local pumpkins have met their fate on the iron fence surrounding this Cobble Hill home.

This landmark building is now a vibrant performing arts space with musical acts from around the world.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

What’s a sure fire way to end up in jail in New York in the 1920s? Peddling bad moonshine.

This recipe is set in stone.

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

This mysterious marker puzzles pedestrians and infuriates geographers.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.

Residents of this Brooklyn neighborhood may be unaware their houses sit atop a buried trolley graveyard.

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

A community theatre in Brooklyn that brings Country to New York and New York to Country.

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

This giant boulder is sandwiched between apartment complexes in upper Manhattan.

A retired subway car stands alone in a field in the middle of Queens.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

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

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.