Places zevmark25 Wants to Go

A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

A Bed-Stuy gymnasium that hosts expansive raves, performances, dance parties, and more.

An 1883 schoolhouse now home to collective of artists.

A big shiny gin and whiskey distillery in Sunset Park.

Micro-distillery in Brooklyn produces New York’s first homemade rum since Prohibition.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

A no-frills cinephile haven known for showing offbeat, underseen films.

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

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

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

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.