Places Edited by Jon Opol

This restaurant sits within the walls of an 18th-century fortification that once defended the city’s old quarter.

Visit a Chinese Taoist temple within the Indigenous lands of the northern Philippines.

Feast on contemporary Filipino cuisine in a chef’s backyard.

This rusting artillery is a relic of Vichy France's influence in West Africa.

Before online banking and smartphone apps, there was "commuter banking" in the subway in Downtown Brooklyn.

A one-ton statue of Steve Rogers beautifies the entry to a Brooklyn Bed, Bath & Beyond.

Underneath the bustling city streets, a hydroponic farm grows unique herbs in an urban oasis.

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

Amid the clacking of snooker balls, diners tuck into fiery Bhutanese fare.

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

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

The cemetery was built for the Spanish colonial elite, but its most famous residents were all buried in unmarked graves.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

Some locals believe the fabled lost gold of General Yamashida is hiding somewhere beneath the city.

An activist who committed her life to peace and women's suffrage.

A monument stands to the famous suffragist who penned the declaration for women's equal rights, including the right to vote.

The legendary court where emerging basketball players gain their street cred.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

Bohol's unusually shaped hills turn brown in the summer months.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

The most remote tree in the world survived desertification, but not a drunk truck driver.