Places myklbrown Wants to Go

The legendary court where emerging basketball players gain their street cred.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

Take in a rare, face-to-face glimpse of Lady Liberty at this tucked away Red Hook park.

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

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

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

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

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.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

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

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

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

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

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.