Places ldemid Wants to Go

Discover the taste of mold.

Ever wanted the laymen's version of your credit card fine print?

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

The oldest Methodist church in the United States has been spreading the good news for over two centuries.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

On the top floor of an upscale department store stands a lavish restaurant housed in a replica of a luxury French dining car.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

The oldest continuously operating farm in New York State.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

This was one of the first (and last) university-built and operated nuclear reactors.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

A Bed-Stuy gymnasium that hosts expansive raves, performances, dance parties, and more.

Whether you're up or down, the Elevator Museum is worth a stop.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.