Places lemonkid Wants to Go

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

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

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

New York's oldest magic store.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

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

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

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

These tiny pine-covered islands have inspired art and poetry for centuries.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

These wondrously illuminated caverns extend under the mountains of the Fukushima Prefecture.

This futuristic public park includes large sculptures and an artificial geyser.

This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.