Places zentropy Wants to Go

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

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

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

This former boomtown "island" is now submerged below Folsom Lake.

This graffiti-covered bridge is the quintessential vision of a place for disillusioned youth to escape the complexities of burgeoning adulthood.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

Special tunnels built so that frogs won't be killed when crossing the highway.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.