New York, New York
Padre Pio Shrine
Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Staten Island, New York
Historic Richmond Town
A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.
Permanently Closed
New York, New York
Durian NYC
The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."
New York, New York
Shinran Statue
Hiroshima survivor on Riverside Drive.
New York, New York
Catacombs of Old St. Patrick's Cathedral
Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.
Brooklyn, New York
Bensonhurst Statue House
One Brooklyn man's collection of life-size fiberglass statues has taken over his entire yard.
New York, New York
The Little Church Around the Corner
This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.
New York, New York
Hare Krishna Tree
One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.
Queens, New York
The Birthplace of Scrabble
A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.
New York, New York
Venetian Room
This lavish room in a New York City mansion is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.
New York, New York
Site of Columbia University's Nuclear Reactor
This was one of the first (and last) university-built and operated nuclear reactors.
New York, New York
John M. Mossman Lock Collection
Hundreds of antique bank vault locks on display in New York City.
Brooklyn, New York
Undertaker's Ledgers
Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.
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.
New York, New York
Toloache
Discover the taste of mold.
New York, New York
Shrine of Saint Frances Cabrini
The mummified relics of an American missionary.
New York, New York
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.
New York, New York
Tammany Hall
The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.
New York, New York
Lenin Statue at Red Square
Salute the leader of the proletariat.
New York, New York
Museum at Eldridge Street
America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.
Brooklyn, New York
Minerva Monument
A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.
New York, New York
The Relic Chapel at the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer
Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.
Permanently Closed
Brooklyn, New York
Cacao Prieto
Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.
New York, New York
Daredevil Tattoo Museum
This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.
