Places mbradley47 Wants to Go

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

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

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

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

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

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

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

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

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

An oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.