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Amiable Child Monument
One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
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NYC Barber Museum
This nostalgic blast from the grooming past is also a working barbershop.
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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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William Lescaze Townhouse
New York City's first Modernist house.
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Nero Wolfe's Brownstone
The home of one of America's most beloved fictional characters has become a real world landmark.
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Chester A. Arthur Inauguration and Death House
The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.
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New York Produce Exchange Property Marker
A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.
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Stickball Hall of Fame
Depression-era fun lives on in this Harlem museum dedicated to the sport of the street.
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Rucker Park
The legendary court where emerging basketball players gain their street cred.
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Cherry Street Gang Warfare
Gang fights don't just happen on the streets, they happen under them too.
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Vintage Massimo Vignelli Subway Map
There's a piece of New York City transportation history hidden in plain sight at a Manhattan subway stop.
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Vanderbilt Tennis Club
The famous facade of Grand Central Terminal hides a regulation tennis court—and it's not the first one.
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Bristol Basin
A small part of lower Manhattan is actually made from a bit of England.
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Waldorf Astoria Archives
Long-forgotten artifacts give incredible insight into New York's most glamorous hotel.
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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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Harry Jenning's Rat Pit of the Five Points
This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.
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U Thant Island
The smallest island in Manhattan is a manmade landfill dominated by a Buddhist peace arch.
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Death Avenue Plaque
Manhattan's deadly West Side railroad, which killed hundreds of New Yorkers, is remembered by this simple plaque.
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Model Ship Collection at the South Street Seaport Museum
Set sail on a small scale.
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The Wendel House
The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.
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Durian NYC
The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."
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Strecker Memorial Laboratory
Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.
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The Ziegfeld Head
The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.
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Rose Hill Historic House
The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.
