Places Talbot von Sregor Wants to Go

A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."

The Underground Railroad passed right through this historic Brooklyn Heights church.

“Wagon Jobber" turned smokehouse magnate's family-owned business is still going strong 100 years later.

In Little Caribbean, an ice-cream shop serves up regional flavors, including soursop, Irish moss, and "greatnut."

A big shiny gin and whiskey distillery in Sunset Park.

A forgotten relic from New York's bygone trolley system hides in plain sight under a bridge.

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

An everyday Jackson Heights bodega conceals a Mexican seafood paradise.

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

Shop while you wait for a table in this tiny Indonesian eatery within a mini-mart.

A mysterious, abandoned building rotting on the Brooklyn waterfront.

This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.

Deliciousness abounds at a Guatemalan restaurant masquerading as a pizzeria.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

Chefs from Tibet's Kham region offer steaming meat pies and noodle soups in this nook behind a jewelry store.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

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

This small New York museum celebrates the mountainous artwork of a Russian mystic.

This mysterious marker puzzles pedestrians and infuriates geographers.