Places Talbot von Sregor Wants to Go

During the American Revolution, this mansion hosted failed peace talks between the British and Americans.

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

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

The famous facade of Grand Central Terminal hides a regulation tennis court—and it's not the first one.

The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.

This neo-Gothic former auto showroom is one of the few remaining reminders of Brooklyn's "Automobile Row."

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

A Collegiate Gothic quadrangle that surrounds an 18th century secondary school whose financing came from the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, among others.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

Where infamous mobster and leader of Murder Inc. Albert Anastasia made his home.

One of the last taxidermists in New York City.

Three stories above you, your salad is being grown.

A small part of lower Manhattan is actually made from a bit of England.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

This preserved wilderness hides the remains of a colonial grain mill used to feed George Washington's troops.

2,000 barrels of aging beer hidden in a warehouse at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

A world of whimsy and wonder aboard a one of a kind historic landmark vessel.

The mass grave of a heroic Revolutionary War regiment sits below an empty lot near the Gowanus Canal.

A mysterious statue of a leather jacket-clad rebel leans coolly on an odd yellow clock.

A basement pool hall is the front for some of the best Dominican food in New York City.

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

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

Known as the "Forgotten City" it was home to industry, riots, artists, squatters, and to one of the largest single disaster fires in New York City.