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Scavenger Taxidermy Diorama
This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
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Aretha Franklin Subway Tributes
A touching tribute to the "Queen of Soul."
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Okapi Taxidermy Diorama
This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.
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Camilo Egas Mural at the New School
After surviving abandonment, this powerful Latin American mural is alive again.
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'Dwellings' at the Breuer Building
This miniature village stays behind in the Breuer Building, even as the museums around it come and go.
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Gorilla Diorama
Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.
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ALF Bakery
Supremely flaky treats await at Amadou Ly’s boulangerie and patisserie.
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Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater
This theater opened in 1998, but both the building and the puppeteers who perform there have a distinguished history.
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Hwa Yuan Szechuan
Slurp sesame noodles at the third-generation family-run establishment that invented them.
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Stephen Wise Recreation Area
A playground the size of a city block is a modernist monument to civic values and public housing.
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The Press Room
Home to a dizzying array of letterpress blocks with a rich history.
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Wing Heung Noodle Co.
Home to some of the last true noodle artisans in New York.
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Dvořák Room
A small piece of the composer's New York home lives on in the center of Czech culture in Manhattan.
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Kuih Café
All of the Malaysian sweets at this shop are made daily with a whole lot of love.
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Pier 26 Tide Deck
Amid skyscrapers and traffic exists this unique aquatic ecosystem.
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Antonín Dvořák's Home
The place where Dvořák composed some of his most famous works.
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Game Boy that Survived a Bombing
Though the case is scorched and the buttons half-melted, this hardy handheld gaming device can still run a game of Tetris.
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IFC Center Peephole
The best way to get a sneak peek at the movies.
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William Lescaze Townhouse
New York City's first Modernist house.
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Physical Graffiti Building
The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.
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Stationary Figures Mosaics
Stunningly detailed mosaics in a New York subway station bring life to the Weimaraners of artist William Wegman's work—and to thousands of commutes.
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Studio of Charles Ives
The studio of influential composer Charles Ives is perfectly reconstructed, hidden in the back of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Marble Hill
Manhattan and the Bronx have been playing tug-of-war over this former island neighborhood for more than a century.
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Stickball Hall of Fame
Depression-era fun lives on in this Harlem museum dedicated to the sport of the street.
