Places penn825 Wants to Go

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

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

A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

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

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

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

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York’s only fraction of a street.