Places woodcuts Wants to Go

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

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

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

The famous facade of Grand Central Terminal hides a regulation tennis court—and it's not the first one.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

The smallest island in Manhattan is a manmade landfill dominated by a Buddhist peace arch.

The childhood home of one of America's greatest unsung troubadours still stands in a much changed Brooklyn neighborhood.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.

A 9-story, poured concrete structure which was used as a glue factory with an indelible smell.

Nondescript building owned by ExxonMobil working on siphoning Greenpoint Oil Spill out of the ground.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.