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The Lightship Frying Pan
Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.
Places sierrawest Wants to Go
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
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Norwegian Seamen's Church
Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.
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Church of the Intercession
A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.
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Bill's Place
This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.
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Site of New York Slave Market
Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.
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The Location of Paul's Boutique
The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.
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The Burns Archive
A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.
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Marie's Crisis
Those belting out show tunes in this West Village piano bar might not realize it marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.
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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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New York Marble Cemetery
A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."
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Power Station
One of the last full-orchestra recording studios in New York City and an acoustical marvel.
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Sakagura
More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.
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Toynbee Tiles
Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.
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Keen's Steakhouse
Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.
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Kenka
Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?
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Houston Bowery Art Wall
This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.
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Sidewalk Subway Map
Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.
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'Life Underground' Sculptures
An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.
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The Hangman's Elm
The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.
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Private Passage
Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.
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Shopsin's
Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.
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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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The Gardens at St. Luke in the Fields
A quiet and contemplative oasis in the middle of New York's bustle and riot.
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The Sisyphus Stones
Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.
