Places seamusemmett Wants to Go

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

Offbeat arts organization that hosts exhibitions, events, and explorations.

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

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

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

The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

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

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

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

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

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

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.