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Gem Spa
For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
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African Burial Ground National Monument
This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.
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Old City Hall Station
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?
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Rivers Cosmogram
A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.
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The Last Remnants of the Polo Grounds
A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.
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Billy's Antiques and Props
A veritable variety of odds and ends.
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Day & Meyer, Murray & Young
Storage warehouse of the rich and famous.
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Holographic Studios Inc.
The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.
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REI's Wall of Litho Stones
A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.
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The Daily News Building Globe
Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.
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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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Greenacre Park
Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.
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William Lescaze Townhouse
New York City's first Modernist house.
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767 Third Avenue
A Manhattan office building is home to the world’s largest chess board.
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The Museum of Interesting Things
A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.
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The Burns Archive
A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.
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Abandoned 18th Street Subway Station
This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.
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Riot Grrrl Collection at NYU
A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.
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The Morris-Jumel Mansion
The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.
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Tender Buttons
This tiny store is your one-stop shop for all sorts of rare and wonderful buttons.
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American Numismatic Society
Play heads or tails with thousands of different coins.
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Bill's Place
This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.
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Sylvan Terrace
A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.
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Track 61
This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.
