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One Times Square
This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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Collyer Brothers Park
Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.
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6 1/2 Avenue: Manhattan’s Secret Street
Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York’s only fraction of a street.
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Brooklyn Bridge Love Locks
A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.
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'Life Underground' Sculptures
An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.
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Wall Street Bombing Scars
Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.
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Toloache
Discover the taste of mold.
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The Daily News Building Globe
Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.
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Strawberry Fields Memorial
This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.
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President Ulysses S. Grant's Tomb
Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.
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Sylvan Terrace
A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.
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The Lightship Frying Pan
Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.
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The Peace Fountain at Cathedral of St. John the Divine
A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.
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Burger Joint
Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.
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Campbell Apartment
A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.
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Maxilla & Mandible
A Natural History and Science Emporium.
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REACH: New York
Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.
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Marilyn Monroe’s Subway Grate
This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.
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New York Marble Cemetery
A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."
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Roosevelt Island Tramway
One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.
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Pneumatic System of the New York Public Library
One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.
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Unicorn Tapestries at the Cloisters
Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.
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Pomander Walk
Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.
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New York's Hidden Tropical Forest
A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.
