Well,New York is definitely place to visit,but i would before first check all cities in Europe,and if you really want to GTFO of europe,you might check overseas territories of europe countries like Curacao,Martinique,reunion and shit like that.Recently i watched how Spain actually have a small territory on north Africa,city i think name was
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceuta and it looked awesome,so you could visit that city as well.