Places Imeka Wants to Go

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

Get a taste of Chamorro cuisine, family-style, at this popular restaurant.

Masterful ceramic fountain and map of the Pacific Basin.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

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

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

Those belting out show tunes in this West Village piano bar might not realize it marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

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

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.