Places KR Peart Wants to Go

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

No monkeying around, this fountain was really named after the classic sci-fi film.

From this desk Al Hirschfeld drew his influential caricatures of the 20th century's Broadway stars.

Devotional offerings and pleas for intercession are left at this Depression-era shrine inside a nature preserve.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

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.

Retribution for death of infamous mob boss Franie Yale was a case of mistaken identity.

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

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

The humble fort that saved Washington.

Here be dragons.

This elaborate tunnel is the first structure composed of cast concrete in the United States.

An aptly-named street near the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement.

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

This vacant church in the Financial District was once the heart of New York's first Syrian immigrant community.

Set sail on a small scale.

Recovered suit of a cannibalistic West African gang.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

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

This castle-like building in Manhattan helped destigmatize cancer in the 19th century.

Once considered the height of medical modernity, this structure is now the oldest remaining component of Roosevelt Hospital.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.