Places rubysage Wants to Go

Chefs from Tibet's Kham region offer steaming meat pies and noodle soups in this nook behind a jewelry store.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

Quite possibly the last cross all humans will ever see.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

A collection of the best toys ever made inside a museum devoted to play.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.

This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.

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

Cheap pizza and all of your naughty bedroom needs housed in a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

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

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

A hidey-hole sandwiched between cellphone, DVD, and jewelry stores features Tibetan delights.

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.