Places REvans Wants to Go

Home to some of the last true noodle artisans in New York.

This mysterious marker puzzles pedestrians and infuriates geographers.

An abandoned subway tunnel that could have reinvigorated Staten Island still lies somewhere beneath this Brooklyn park.

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

This striking arch, one of the first architectural elements constructed in Prospect Park, was recently restored to its original glory.

This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.

This was one of the first (and last) university-built and operated nuclear reactors.

The world’s largest collection of Tiffany glass sits in a warehouse in Queens.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

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

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

Long-forgotten artifacts give incredible insight into New York's most glamorous hotel.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

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

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.