Places tiki42 Wants to Go

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

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

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

This controversial statue has migrated twice in its life.

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

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

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

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

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

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

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

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

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

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

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

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.