Noasca, Italy
Goats of the Cingino Dam
This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
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Sakagura
More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.
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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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Wall Street Bombing Scars
Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.
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The Former New Brighton Athletic Club
These historic buildings once housed the headquarters of one of the most infamous gangs of New York.
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The Hidden Art Deco Tunnel Underneath the New Yorker Hotel
The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.
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Mercury Theatre Plaque
Where the legendary Orson Welles got his theatrical start before "Citizen Kane."
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Cherokee Apartments
This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.
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New York Society Library
New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.
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Antioch Chalice
Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.
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Carnegie Hall Archives
More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.
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Hess Triangle
New York City's smallest piece of private property.
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Staple Street Skybridge
Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.
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Fraunces Tavern
This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.
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Preserved Remnants of 17th Century New York
Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.
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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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Chinatown's Bloody Angle
Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.
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The Mulberry Bend
During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.
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The Hangman's Elm
The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.
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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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'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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Berlin Wall Section
A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.
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The Evolution Store
A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.
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Riot Grrrl Collection at NYU
A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.
