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Delmonico's Pompeii Columns
Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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The Standard Oil Building
This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.
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Fearless Girl Statue
Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.
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'The Sphere'
This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.
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The Oldest Fence in New York
Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.
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The American Merchant Mariner's Memorial
Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.
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Governors Island
Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.
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Yonah Schimmel's Knish Bakery
Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.
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Billy's Antiques and Props
A veritable variety of odds and ends.
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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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Please Don't Tell
Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.
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Obscura Antiques and Oddities
Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.
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The "Irving House"
Nope, not Washington Irving's house.
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The Wishbones of McSorley's Old Ale House
Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.
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Union Square Metronome
The most confusing clock in New York.
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41 Cooper Square
This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.
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The Evolution Store
A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.
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The Brown Building
The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
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The Weathermen Townhouse Explosion
A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.
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Second Cemetery of the Congregation Shearith Israel
New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.
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Jefferson Market Library
Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.
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C. O. Bigelow Apothecary
The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.
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Pier 54: The Titanic’s Arrival Destination
A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.
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The High Line
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
