Places KJMcLean Wants to Go

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

A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.

Long-forgotten artifacts give incredible insight into New York's most glamorous hotel.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

Take in a rare, face-to-face glimpse of Lady Liberty at this tucked away Red Hook park.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.