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New York City Police Museum
Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
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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.
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Septuagesimo Uno
The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."
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Merchant's House Museum
New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.
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New York Academy of Medicine Rare Book Library
This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.
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The Hangman's Elm
The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.
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President Ulysses S. Grant's Tomb
Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.
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Sidewalk Subway Map
Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.
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Tunnel Number 3
Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."
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Barthman's Sidewalk Clock
A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.
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Private Passage
Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.
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New York Society Library
New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.
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The Sisyphus Stones
Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.
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Titanic Memorial
Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.
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Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space
A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.
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Bryant Park Bathroom
The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.
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Governors Island
Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.
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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 Grolier Club
The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.
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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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Hamilton Grange
The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.
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Frick Bowling Alley
Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.
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Burger Joint
Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.
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El Sabroso
This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.
