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Panorama of the City of New York
The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.
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The Ganesh Temple of Queens
This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.
Queens, New York
TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport
This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.
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The Manhattan Eruv
This nearly invisible wire transforms much of the city into one big, symbolic home on the holy day.
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Tom's Restaurant
The "Seinfeld" diner.
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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.
New York, New York
President Ulysses S. Grant's Tomb
Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.
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Collyer Brothers Park
Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.
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Rivers Cosmogram
A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.
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Roosevelt Island Lighthouse
A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.
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Paley Park
A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.
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Roosevelt Island Octagon Tower
A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.
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The Marriage of Money and Real Estate
A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.
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Venetian Room
This lavish room in a New York City mansion is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.
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Albertine
Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.
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Roosevelt Island Tramway
One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.
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Crabs of Cleopatra’s Needle
Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.
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The Weathermen Townhouse Explosion
A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.
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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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Queensboro Trolley Kiosk
A forgotten relic from New York's bygone trolley system hides in plain sight under a bridge.
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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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The General Worth Monument
This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.
New York, New York
The Daily News Building Globe
Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.
New York, New York
Al Hirschfeld's Desk and Chair
From this desk Al Hirschfeld drew his influential caricatures of the 20th century's Broadway stars.
