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The Hangman's Elm
The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
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The Brown Building
The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
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The Museum of Interesting Things
A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.
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Obscura Antiques and Oddities
Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.
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Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space
A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.
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Billy's Antiques and Props
A veritable variety of odds and ends.
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Holiday Nostalgia Train
During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.
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Carsten Höller Slide
Three-story slide through the New Museum.
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190 Bowery
The greatest real estate coup of all time.
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Shopsin's
Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.
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The Troll Museum
Reverend Jen's unique museum/living room showcases her troll collection.
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The 'Ghostbusters' Firehouse
Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.
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Dream House
La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.
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Mmuseumm
A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."
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Long Lines Building
An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.
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Harry Jenning's Rat Pit of the Five Points
This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.
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Titanic Memorial
Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.
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New York Federal Gold Vault
More gold than anywhere else, ever.
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Trinity Churchyard
This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.
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Wall Street Bombing Scars
Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.
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The Standard Oil Building
This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.
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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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Preserved Remnants of 17th Century New York
Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.
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Mafia Executioner Albert Anastasia's 1920s Home
Where infamous mobster and leader of Murder Inc. Albert Anastasia made his home.
