Places Zesra Wants to Go

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

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

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

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

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

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

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.