Places LlibbyScorse Wants to Go

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

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

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

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

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

New York's oldest magic store.

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

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

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

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

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

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

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

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

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

You can dig for your own 52-million-year-old fish fossils.

A scenic natural bridge with a creek running underneath.

The rockpile was the founding landmark for the town of Gillette, and is now the home of the region's history.