Places MacGrioux Wants to Go

Hundreds of statues of Buddha’s disciples meditating, napping, sneezing, and picking their noses.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

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

A cargo of beautiful music.

The Underground Railroad passed right through this historic Brooklyn Heights church.

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

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

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

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

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

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.