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Amiable Child Monument
One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.
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The Narrowest Building in New York
This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.
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Trinity Church Cemetery & Mausoleum
You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.
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First Shearith Israel Graveyard
Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.
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The Double Check Businessman
This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.
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The Cross at Ground Zero
Pulled from the rubble of one of the worst modern tragedies, a steel crossbeam became a symbol of hope for New Yorkers.
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Ear Inn
One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).
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Shrine of Saint Frances Cabrini
The mummified relics of an American missionary.
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The Jane Hotel
This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.
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Jeffrey's Hook Light
Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.
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Roosevelt Island Lighthouse
A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.
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Site of New York Slave Market
Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.
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Church of the Intercession
A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.
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Castle Williams
In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.
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Catacombs of Old St. Patrick's Cathedral
Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.
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The Relic Chapel at the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer
Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.
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Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace Museum
The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.
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New York Marble Cemetery
A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."
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New Yorker Hotel
The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.
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President Ulysses S. Grant's Tomb
Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.
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Private Passage
Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.
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Titanic Memorial
Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.
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The Hidden Holocaust Memorial of Madison Park
A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.
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Macy's Wooden Escalators
A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.
