New York, New York
Wall Street Bombing Scars
Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
New York, New York
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace Museum
The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.
New York, New York
The Sisyphus Stones
Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.
Bronx, New York
Woodlawn Cemetery
The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.
Bronx, New York
Edgar Allan Poe Cottage
The famous author's cottage hideaway.
New York, New York
Statue of Liberty's Original Torch
Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.
Kingston, New York
Lite Brite Neon Studio
Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.
New York, New York
El Sabroso
This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.
Queens, New York
Houdini's Grave
The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.
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Brooklyn, New York
Dead Horse Bay
First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.
New York, New York
United Palace Theatre
One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.
New York, New York
Preserved Remnants of 17th Century New York
Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.
New York, New York
Greenacre Park
Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.
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New York, New York
Goldbar
A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.
New York, New York
The Woolworth Building
Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.
New York, New York
The New York Earth Room
A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.
New York, New York
Hess Triangle
New York City's smallest piece of private property.
New York, New York
Please Don't Tell
Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.
New York, New York
Mmuseumm
A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."
New York, New York
Old City Hall Station
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?
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Danbury, Connecticut
'Danbury Crowns Them All' Sign
A jewel of early electric boosterism once again charms Connecticut's historic "Hat City."
Hartford, Connecticut
Flood 1936 Marker
A tiny memorial for the year the Connecticut River almost destroyed New England.
Hartford, Connecticut
Site of the First Public Pay Phone
An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.
Hartford, Connecticut
Statue of Rover
A tribute to the truly loyal dog who waited outside a hospital for his owner to come back.
