Places Shastified Wants to Go

Amid the clacking of snooker balls, diners tuck into fiery Bhutanese fare.

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

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

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

A no-frills cinephile haven known for showing offbeat, underseen films.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

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

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

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

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

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

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

A quiet and contemplative oasis in the middle of New York's bustle and riot.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

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.

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

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

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.