Places readayy Wants to Go

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

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

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

Where Greenpoint's first European settler—and troublemaker—made his home.

Four cars from the old system were once on display, but were removed in 2014.

A Brooklyn exhibit all about Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding in 1994.

Abandoned 19th century homes once occupied by naval officers, soon to be demolished.

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

A mosaic made of materials gathered from this Brooklyn community adorns the walls of this tunnel.

The site of a fallen tree that protected Americans from British forces during the American Revolution.

A century-old magnolia tree is the only living landmark tree in New York City.

A cruise terminal that changes the atmosphere of Red Hook's industrial waterfront.

The engineering feat of the Panama Canal was possible in small part thanks to materials developed in this humble Red Hook foundry.

Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

A group dedicated to promoting boating, kayaking and environmental education programs.

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

The childhood home of one of America's greatest unsung troubadours still stands in a much changed Brooklyn neighborhood.

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.