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Graybar Rats
Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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Grand Central Terminal Whispering Gallery
Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.
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The New York New Church
Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.
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Plaque of Nikola Tesla on Radio Wave Building
The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.
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Gimbel's Bridge
A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.
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New York Herald Monument
There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.
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Giant Needle and Button
There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...
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Pneumatic System of the New York Public Library
One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.
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The Real Winnie the Pooh & Pals
The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.
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Nikola Tesla Street Corner
Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.
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Bryant Park Bathroom
The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.
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The Wertheim Study
This study room in the New York Public Library saw the creation of one of contemporary America's greatest traitors.
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The Wendel House
The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.
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The Remnants of Tin Pan Alley
The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.
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Saint Vartan Armenian Cathedral
A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.
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One Times Square
This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.
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Jefferson Market Library
Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.
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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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Second Cemetery of the Congregation Shearith Israel
New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.
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Camilo Egas Mural at the New School
After surviving abandonment, this powerful Latin American mural is alive again.
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Tammany Hall
The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.
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The "Irving House"
Nope, not Washington Irving's house.
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Union Square Metronome
The most confusing clock in New York.
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The Former Offices of McKim, Mead and White
The one-time office of the architectural firm that ushered in the Gilded Age is now a Club Monaco.
