Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory
The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
New York, New York
Tunnel Number 3
Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."
New York, New York
Barthman's Sidewalk Clock
A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.
Queens, New York
The Underground Home
A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.
Queens, New York
TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport
This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.
New York, New York
Shopsin's
Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.
New York, New York
Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space
A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.
New York, New York
Titanic Memorial
Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.
Staten Island, New York
Remains of Fort Wadsworth
Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.
Bronx, New York
Woodlawn Cemetery
The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.
New York, New York
New York Society Library
New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.
New York, New York
Daredevil Tattoo Museum
This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.
New York, New York
The Hidden Holocaust Memorial of Madison Park
A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.
Brooklyn, New York
Wonderville
An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.
New York, New York
Hamilton Grange
The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.
New York, New York
Frick Bowling Alley
Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.
Brooklyn, New York
Wyckoff Street Mosaic
Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.
New York, New York
The Sisyphus Stones
Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.
New York, New York
The Morris-Jumel Mansion
The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.
Brooklyn, New York
Steve's Authentic Key Lime Pies
“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."
New York, New York
Hallett Nature Sanctuary
Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.
New York, New York
Abandoned 18th Street Subway Station
This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.
New York, New York
Burger Joint
Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.
New York, New York
P.S. 186
From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.
