Places zichk Wants to Go

This lavish room in a New York City mansion is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

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

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

Become a prohibition rebel.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Swirling layers of white and red rock earned these mountains their festive nickname.

A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.

This disused church, left to the elements of the Arctic Circle's forests is open for exploration.