Places LlibbyScorse Wants to Go

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

Hiroshima survivor on Riverside Drive.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.

Chefs from Tibet's Kham region offer steaming meat pies and noodle soups in this nook behind a jewelry store.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

An abandoned subway tunnel that could have reinvigorated Staten Island still lies somewhere beneath this Brooklyn park.

This striking arch, one of the first architectural elements constructed in Prospect Park, was recently restored to its original glory.

This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

This once-grand marvel of engineering is now 41 miles of scenic hiking trail.

Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.