Places Liskaliska Wants to Go

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world’s largest chess board.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

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

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

The most confusing clock in New York.

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

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

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

A no-frills cinephile haven known for showing offbeat, underseen films.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

Built as a gift to the hottest tastemaker of the time, these hidden quarters remain an Art Deco showpiece.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

This interactive gallery makes you feel like you've stepped into a fantasy world filled with whimsical monsters.

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.