New York, New York
Mercury Theatre Plaque
Where the legendary Orson Welles got his theatrical start before "Citizen Kane."
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
New York, New York
Girl Puzzle Monument
An art installation commemorates journalist Nellie Bly's undercover reporting inside a New York asylum.
New York, New York
Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater
This theater opened in 1998, but both the building and the puppeteers who perform there have a distinguished history.
Bronx, New York
Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Grave
A monument stands to the famous suffragist who penned the declaration for women's equal rights, including the right to vote.
New York, New York
Physical Graffiti Building
The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.
New York, New York
Electric Lady Studios
Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.
New York, New York
African Burial Ground National Monument
This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.
New York, New York
Graybar Rats
Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.
New York, New York
John M. Mossman Lock Collection
Hundreds of antique bank vault locks on display in New York City.
New York, New York
U.N. Delegates Dining Room
You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.
New York, New York
767 Third Avenue
A Manhattan office building is home to the world’s largest chess board.
Brooklyn, New York
Masstransiscope
A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.
New York, New York
The Brown Building
The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
New York, New York
Roosevelt Island Lighthouse
A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.
New York, New York
Roosevelt Island Octagon Tower
A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.
New York, New York
Paley Park
A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.
New York, New York
Norwegian Seamen's Church
Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.
New York, New York
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.
New York, New York
New Yorker Hotel
The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.
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
Poster House Museum
The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.
New York, New York
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.
New York, New York
Cafe at the Swedish Church of New York
Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.
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.
