Places zichk Wants to Go

This sculptural piece by the artist Tom Otterness doubles as a jungle gym.

A labor of love by laborers in the sign-making business.

Fabrication workshop where the encasement for One World Trade Center's beacon was constructed.

Get to know the plant-based fare of Chinese Buddhist monks.

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.

This miniature village stays behind in the Breuer Building, even as the museums around it come and go.

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

The longest step street in the city.

The collection is exhibited in a Staten Island building modeled on traditional Himalayan architecture.

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

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

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

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

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

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.

A temple belonging to the largest Buddhist order in South Korea nestled in the middle of New York City.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

This preserved wilderness hides the remains of a colonial grain mill used to feed George Washington's troops.

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

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

This Orthodox Church's exterior is rather unorthodox.

Oldest surviving example of a Dutch saltbox frame house in America.

This eclectic sculpture garden in Brooklyn, home to a bizarre collection of art, was once a run-down junkyard.

This study room in the New York Public Library saw the creation of one of contemporary America's greatest traitors.