Places mayalag Wants to Go

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

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

A huge resale shop for the cast-offs of the film & television industry.

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

Underneath the bustling city streets, a hydroponic farm grows unique herbs in an urban oasis.

An extensive collection of fine art devoted to man's best friend.

Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

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

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

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

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

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

Take a hike to this remote, scenic tea stop in the Canadian Rockies.

Artisans have been gathering in North Carolina since 1989 to show off whimsical takes on an everyday item.