Places lokimann Wants to Go

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

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

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

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

One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.

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

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

Discover the taste of mold.

Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.