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Toynbee Tiles
Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
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Hamilton Grange
The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.
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Crabs of Cleopatra’s Needle
Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.
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Sidewalk Subway Map
Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.
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Strawberry Fields Memorial
This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.
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77 Water Street
A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.
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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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Campbell Apartment
A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.
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Blockhouse No. 1
This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.
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REACH: New York
Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.
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Freedom Tunnel
A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.
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Goldbar
A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.
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Track 61
This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.
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5 Beekman Street
This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.
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Dream House
La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.
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The Evolution Store
A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.
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Mmuseumm
A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."
Nottingham, England
Newstead Abbey
The ancestral home of beloved English poet Lord Byron has a bizarre history.
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Sandwich, Massachusetts
The Bulb River
35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.
San Francisco, California
Yoda Fountain
There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.
Tattershall, England
Grave of Tom Thumb
An engraved stone in a village church claims to be the grave of a minuscule folk legend.
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'The Sale of Manhattan'
Down a stairway in the East Village, you could once read a plaque describing an alternate history of a fictional version of Manhattan.
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Holiday Nostalgia Train
During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.
