Places nlabat Wants to Go

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

New York's oldest magic store.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

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

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

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

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.