Places nancybdeol Wants to Go

Micro-distillery in Brooklyn produces New York’s first homemade rum since Prohibition.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

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

New York's oldest magic store.

Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

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

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

Unlock the secrets of the conjuring arts.

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

HBO series' stage tucked away in a Greenpoint lot is the largest theatrical set of its kind in the United States.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Three stories above you, your salad is being grown.

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

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

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

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.