Places rosetatarsky Wants to Go

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

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

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

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

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

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

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

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

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.

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

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

One of the last full-orchestra recording studios in New York City and an acoustical marvel.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

The place where Czar Peter I of Russia resided in 1697 during his Grand Embassy.

A Dutch clog company in the town of Zaandam loves the wooden shoes so much it made a museum for them.

The spectacular history of spectacles on display.

The largest collection of handbags in the world, the oldest of which were used to carry Bibles, primarily by men.

This basement museum explores the art and artistry of fascism.

Amsterdam's Red Light District leaves little to the imagination.

In 1988, jazz legend Chet Baker fell to his death from a window of this hotel facing Amsterdam Centraal.