Places tiernoodle Wants to Go

These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

This building featuring Brutalist architecture has a rich media production history.

On a small island, a replica of a Finnish village from the Iron Age.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

A small island dotted with old, historic Finnish buildings.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

This giant boulder is sandwiched between apartment complexes in upper Manhattan.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

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

The longest step street in the city.