Places Talbot von Sregor Wants to Go

The highest natural point in New York City and all of the Atlantic coastal plain.

The home of former Heavyweight Boxing Champion, "Gentleman Jim" Corbett.

2 square block factory in Greenpoint erected in 1936.

An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.

The factory that helped produce a dominant form of lighting before Thomas Edison.

An experimental, community court opened in 2000 takes a new approach to youth offenders in south Brooklyn.

The oldest private residence in New York City.

This controversial statue has migrated twice in its life.

The site of a fallen tree that protected Americans from British forces during the American Revolution.

A small graveyard is hidden in the midst of a bustling university campus.

Ornate "Renaissance Revival" style building.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

One of the remaining markers of an era when Brooklyn and Flatbush were separate cities.

The only remaining Jewish congregation in Greenpoint.

Once home to the country's most gargantuan ships, this graving dock now waits for people to buy furniture.

The collection is exhibited in a Staten Island building modeled on traditional Himalayan architecture.

A former Tibetan monk made a name for himself selling some of the best beef momos in New York.

An art installation commemorates journalist Nellie Bly's undercover reporting inside a New York asylum.

Out of a labyrinth of abandoned tunnels and stops, this Queens subway station is arguably the most mysterious—if it exists at all.

The unassuming structure was part of a Major League Baseball stadium.

An homage to Jackie Gleason's bus-driving character from 'The Honeymooners.'

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

This former water source for the City of Brooklyn is now a thriving natural wetland.

Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.