Places maxvaughn Wants to Go

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

The oldest Dutch colonial stone house in New York City is a hidden gem on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

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

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

Brooklyn's Barkaloo Cemetery is the resting place of a scant two bodies.

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

A famous songsmith's custom piano, dubbed "High Society," is hidden just out of sight in one of New York's finest hotels.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

A no-frills cinephile haven known for showing offbeat, underseen films.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.