Places pazzawinyan Wants to Go

Hiroshima survivor on Riverside Drive.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

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

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

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

The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.

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

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

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

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

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

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

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.