Places nancybdeol Wants to Go

Skewer up Kangaroo.

Three-story slide through the New Museum.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

Play heads or tails with thousands of different coins.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

Set sail on a small scale.

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.

Discover the taste of mold.

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

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

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

An accidentally hidden library containing the ephemeral history of New York.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."