Places Marbles07 Wants to Go

A Bed-Stuy gymnasium that hosts expansive raves, performances, dance parties, and more.

An enormous cat made of recycled wood scraps.

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

A partially hidden wall graffitied by spectators of the 1976 Bicentennial, recently rediscovered.

Down a stairway in the East Village, you could once read a plaque describing an alternate history of a fictional version of Manhattan.

An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.

The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.

Haven for steampunks.

The saddest little diner in New York.

An accidentally hidden library containing the ephemeral history of New York.

Created by four famous men, the beautifully designed Buffalo State Asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center, but still boasts a ghost story or two.

A veritable variety of odds and ends.

Three-story slide through the New Museum.

On the top floor of an upscale department store stands a lavish restaurant housed in a replica of a luxury French dining car.

Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

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

The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

In Cold Spring, New York, a shrine containing Godzilla and an assortment of plastic dinosaurs stands dedicated to a teenager who died in a car accident in 1996.

A monument honoring those who died in the Great Famine of Ireland.