Places thelonesomeroad Wants to Go

This micro-industry of Latino cuisine along Red Hook's Ball Fields represents a victory in a food fight with the city.

Brooklyn vintners creating world-class wine in a city not known for its vineyards.

A yoga studio and venue for "chill-out parties" in a former chicken slaughterhouse.

Now the site of a high school, this was almost the location of the largest cathedral in the US.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

An 1883 schoolhouse now home to collective of artists.

A Red Hook dive bar that is holding onto its roots.

An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

Brooklyn's Barkaloo Cemetery is the resting place of a scant two bodies.

Micro-distillery in Brooklyn produces New York’s first homemade rum since Prohibition.

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

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

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

A big shiny gin and whiskey distillery in Sunset Park.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

Risk arrest while partying to fund art.

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

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.

Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

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