Places stephaniewade56 Wants to Go

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

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

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

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

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

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

The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

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

Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.

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

The most confusing clock in New York.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

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

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.