New York, New York
Union Square Metronome
The most confusing clock in New York.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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Jeffrey's Hook Light
Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.
New York, New York
Dyckman Farmhouse
This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.
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Roosevelt Island Lighthouse
A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.
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C-Squat
A notorious punk house turned co-op.
Brooklyn, New York
Red Hook Warehouse
A massive forgotten storehouse from 1913 on the Brooklyn Waterfront has a spectacular view of Brooklyn.
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The Lightship Frying Pan
Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.
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Grand Central Oyster Bar
This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.
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Nikola Tesla Street Corner
Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.
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Giant Needle and Button
There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...
Brooklyn, New York
Coney Art Walls
This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.
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Roosevelt Island Octagon Tower
A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.
Brooklyn, New York
Vinegar Hill
Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.
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Paley Park
A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.
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Plaque of Nikola Tesla on Radio Wave Building
The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.
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Wall Street Bombing Scars
Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.
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New York Marble Cemetery
A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."
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Toynbee Tiles
Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.
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.
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New Yorker Hotel
The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.
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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.
New York, New York
President Ulysses S. Grant's Tomb
Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.
Brooklyn, New York
The Carousel in Prospect Park
You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.
New York, New York
Chinatown's Bloody Angle
Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.
