Places leecrutchley Wants to Go

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Down a stairway in the East Village, you could once read a plaque describing an alternate history of a fictional version of Manhattan.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

A collaborative art project that transformed a neighborhood in NYC's Queens.

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

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

This mysterious marker puzzles pedestrians and infuriates geographers.

Amid the clacking of snooker balls, diners tuck into fiery Bhutanese fare.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

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

The cuisine at this Sheepshead Bay spot tells the story of a displaced Muslim Chinese community.

Head past the aisles of tropical fruit and imported candy at this bodega to discover a hidden, weekends-only taco stand.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

Bacteria and algae give the salty water its bubblegum hue.

This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.