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Burger Joint
Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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Campbell Apartment
A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.
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Barthman's Sidewalk Clock
A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.
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New York Marble Cemetery
A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."
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Sidewalk Subway Map
Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.
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Angel Orensanz Foundation
The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.
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Irish Hunger Memorial
Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.
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Unicorn Tapestries at the Cloisters
Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.
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Roosevelt Island Tramway
One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.
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The SeaGlass Carousel
Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.
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Trinity Churchyard
This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.
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High Bridge
The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.
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Times Square Hum
A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.
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The New York Earth Room
A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.
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Hess Triangle
New York City's smallest piece of private property.
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Grand Central Terminal Whispering Gallery
Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.
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Lower East Side Toy Company (The Back Room)
Become a prohibition rebel.
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The High Line
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
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Please Don't Tell
Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.
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The 'Ghostbusters' Firehouse
Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.
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Mmuseumm
A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."
Permanently Closed
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The Evolution Store
A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.
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Old City Hall Station
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?
