New York, New York
Nicholas Roerich Museum
This small New York museum celebrates the mountainous artwork of a Russian mystic.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
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Rat Rock in Morningside Heights
This giant boulder is sandwiched between apartment complexes in upper Manhattan.
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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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The Manhattan Eruv
This nearly invisible wire transforms much of the city into one big, symbolic home on the holy day.
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Collyer Brothers Park
Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.
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Bill's Place
This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.
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Rivers Cosmogram
A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.
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Amiable Child Monument
One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.
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President Ulysses S. Grant's Tomb
Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.
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Hispanic Society Museum and Library
This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.
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High Bridge
The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.
Bronx, New York
Hall of Fame for Great Americans
The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.
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Seaman-Drake Arch
Surrounded by low rise buildings and partially converted into an auto body shop, this marble archway is the only vestige of a forgotten Manhattan estate.
Bronx, New York
West 230th Step Street
The longest step street in the city.
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Dyckman Farmhouse
This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.
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Bennett Park
The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.
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Church of the Intercession
A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.
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The Last Remnants of the Polo Grounds
A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.
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The Morris-Jumel Mansion
The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.
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The Players
A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.
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The Museum of Interesting Things
A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.
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Russian and Turkish Baths Cafe
Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.
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Kenka
Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?
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Site of the Beach Pneumatic Subway
Visit the site of a subway powered by nothing more than air--and lots of it.
