Places Talbot von Sregor Wants to Go

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

From this desk Al Hirschfeld drew his influential caricatures of the 20th century's Broadway stars.

No monkeying around, this fountain was really named after the classic sci-fi film.

This landmark building is now a vibrant performing arts space with musical acts from around the world.

This unusual subway stop was originally a real estate office.

Where the legendary Orson Welles got his theatrical start before "Citizen Kane."

A century-old magnolia tree is the only living landmark tree in New York City.

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.

Nearly four centuries after its founding, remnants of one of the oldest planned communities in North America are still visible in southern Brooklyn.

Two monstrous warehouses. One now holds priceless works of art, the other stands abandoned and dilapidated.

The oldest Methodist church in the United States has been spreading the good news for over two centuries.

New York City's first Modernist house.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

One-time largest man-made structure in the world will be a park in 30 years.

Once a dumping spot, now a park with a kayak launch.

The mysterious image is believed to show Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, in a beautiful blue dress.

The site where Joe Gallo kept his guns, pet lion, and launched an all out mob war in 1960s Brooklyn.

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

Guerilla gardeners reclaimed this abandoned railroad land literally putting down roots.

The final resting place of some of Staten Island's earliest settlers and their descendants.

Here be dragons.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

Snack on a partially gestated duck egg.