Places Talbot von Sregor Wants to Go

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

New York's oldest magic store.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

An underground blaze turned this village into a ghost town.

This small village museum contains the schoolboy scratchings of William Wordsworth.

This replica of a 16th-century French settlement memorializes one of the earliest attempts at a European settlement in North America.

An 18th-century religious argument etched into stone.

Some believe this tree to be more than 1,500 years old.

The largest battery in New England sits atop a Massachusetts mountain.

The last gas-lit cinema in the United Kingdom, and perhaps the world.

This remote river crossing was a popular campground on American westward expansion trails, and a former Pony Express station.

This large stone residence served as a field hospital during the Battle of Gettysburg between stints as a tavern.

The head of a legendary creature allegedly killed during colonial times is now on display at a local restaurant.

For fans of the stained glass art of Irish illustrator Harry Clarke, this church is the place to be.

This cast-iron canine is a beloved icon among the people of Johnstown and ice hockey fans everywhere.

A journey through every aspect of the human body.

A watchhouse constructed from tombstones, to make way for a burial pit, for the victims succumbing to a deadly disease.

Built around 1723, this is the oldest surviving home in the U.S.'s oldest colonial city.