Places lemonkid Wants to Go

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Eat like a bird in a bamboo nest.

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

A huge resale shop for the cast-offs of the film & television industry.

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

Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

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

An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

Those belting out show tunes in this West Village piano bar might not realize it marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

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

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

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

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

This small New York museum celebrates the mountainous artwork of a Russian mystic.

One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.