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Joanne Hendricks Cookbooks
Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.
Places mistoran Wants to Go
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
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Slocum Memorial Fountain
Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.
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New York Cancer Hospital
This castle-like building in Manhattan helped destigmatize cancer in the 19th century.
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Strecker Memorial Laboratory
Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.
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Nathan Hale Hanging Site
A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
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First Shearith Israel Graveyard
Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.
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American Numismatic Society
Play heads or tails with thousands of different coins.
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Dyckman Farmhouse
This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.
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Museum of Chinese in America
This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.
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Museum at Eldridge Street
America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.
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The Oldest Fence in New York
Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.
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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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Castle Williams
In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.
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Church of the Intercession
A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.
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The Sugar House Prison Window
An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.
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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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The Hangman's Elm
The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.
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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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President Ulysses S. Grant's Tomb
Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.
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Merchant's House Museum
New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.
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Statue of Liberty's Original Torch
Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.
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New York Marble Cemetery
A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."
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Titanic Memorial
Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.
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The Hidden Holocaust Memorial of Madison Park
A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.
