Places Karina Spivak Wants to Go

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

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

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

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

The loneliest island in New York.

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

Unlock the secrets of the conjuring arts.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

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."

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

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

Check out the underground party scene at the "Burning Man of Brooklyn."

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

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

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories