Places mjh Wants to Go

Austria’s oldest brewery makes beer with flaming-hot granite.

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

This interactive gallery makes you feel like you've stepped into a fantasy world filled with whimsical monsters.

Maine's oldest diner also happens to win acclaim for its elevated comfort food.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

A basement pool hall is the front for some of the best Dominican food in New York City.

Rare moles meet activism at this Oaxacan eatery.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

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

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.