Places maquid Wants to Go

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

Become a prohibition rebel.

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

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

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

Fowl, love and death in Vietnam.

Giant pagoda houses the car that drove Thích Quảng Đức to his death by self-immolation.

This cavern was used as a hidden hospital and safe house during the Vietnam War.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.

This network of tunnels housed an entire village for years, and even had a hall for screening movies.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.