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From Shakespeare in the Park to SummerStage, New York’s iconic summer and fall happenings are back on this year.

Two Mexican eateries in Brooklyn, as well as seven (yes, seven!) Japanese restaurants, all earned stars in the 2019 edition of the Michelin Guide New York City.

Luxurious places for a soak and sauna session are popping up around the United States. Here are seven to check out.

If you walk down formerly industrial streets and passed empty lots and questionable auto shops in Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood, you’ll find Proteus Gowanus, an interdisciplinary arts organization dedicated to creating an alternative arts environment “designed to stimulate the creative process.” Within this warren of shared art spaces, tucked right in the center, is a room stuffed to the gills with oddments, artifacts and reliquaries time forgot. Not by Joanna Eberstein, founder and director of the Morbid Anatomy Library, though. Closer to a “closet” than a “library” (at least in the grandest sense of the latter), Morbid Anatomy is chock-a-block full with shelves of catalogs, books, photographs, taxidermy and curiousities with ties to anatomical art, the history of medicine, death and society, medical museums, natural history, and arcane media. The macabre collection, privately owned by Eberstein, is an exploration of “the interstices of art and medicine, death and culture” and is open to the public, though appointments are encouraged. Morbid Anatomy as a space invites deeper dissection into its material (medical journals with early photography of bizarrely distended organs, for instance) but its real value lies in its various workshops, contextualizing bits of the collection or otherwise bringing to light rituals, traditions, and cultural practices as they pertain to the library’s mission.

The Gowanus Canal has long been a scar on Brooklyn, a toxic Superfund site that the city, state, and federal governments have spent millions of dollars to return to something somewhat closer to a pristine state. With Brooklyn enjoying a red-hot moment, however, developers aren’t waiting for the cleanup to be completed. Alongside new condos are a handful of restaurants and bars attracting intrepid travelers to this part of Brooklyn. Lavender Lake’s name is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the canal and the sheen created by pollution on the water’s surface. On a sunny day on the bar’s patio, however, the setting feels more bucolic than post-industrial. The bar’s cocktail menu features spirits infused with chai, yerba maté, and chamomile, as well as its own house-made syrups. The limited menu has some innovative vegetarian options, like the cauliflower Reuben, while carnivores can order burgers and steaks. Lavender Lake is especially lively on summer weekends, when DJs spin in the evenings.