Places mcdermany Wants to Go

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

Unlock the secrets of the conjuring arts.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

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

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

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

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

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.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

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

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.