Places limikoleit Wants to Go

No one’s quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

Once a dumping spot, now a park with a kayak launch.

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

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

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

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

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.

Three stories above you, your salad is being grown.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

Become a prohibition rebel.

Long-forgotten artifacts give incredible insight into New York's most glamorous hotel.