claytravels's User Profile - Atlas Obscura
Places near me Random place
Leaderboard Highlights
claytravels's activity rankings
1st
Places visited in Sonoma, California
3rd
Places visited in Incheon, South Korea
Loading map...
New York, New York

Giant Needle and Button

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...
Oliver Hong Added by Oliver Hong
New York, New York

Museum at Eldridge Street

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.
Rachaelannmare Added by Rachaelannmare
New York, New York

The Lightship Frying Pan

Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.
jamesb Added by jamesb
New York, New York

Nikola Tesla Street Corner

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.
Alicia Bones Added by Alicia Bones
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.
lewblank Added by lewblank
Brooklyn, New York

The Old Headquarters of Murder, Inc.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.
Luke J Spencer Added by Luke J Spencer
New York, New York

The Wishbones of McSorley's Old Ale House

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.
Luke J Spencer Added by Luke J Spencer
Brooklyn, New York

Atlantic Avenue Tunnel

In the middle of downtown Brooklyn lies a 165 year old secret hidden right below the surface (closed to the public indefinitely).
Dylan Added by Dylan
New York, New York

Wall Street Bombing Scars

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.
atimian Added by atimian
Brooklyn, New York

Green-Wood Cemetery

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.
Molly McBride Jacobson Added by Molly McBride Jacobson
New York, New York

Plaque of Nikola Tesla on Radio Wave Building

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.
Alicia Bones Added by Alicia Bones
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.
Rachel Added by Rachel
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

Merchant's House Museum

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.
mariamakenna Added by mariamakenna
New York, New York

Kenka

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?
Oliver Hong Added by Oliver Hong
New York, New York

Chinatown's Bloody Angle

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.
Oliver Hong Added by Oliver Hong
New York, New York

The Hangman's Elm

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.
taotaoholmes Added by taotaoholmes
New York, New York

President Ulysses S. Grant's Tomb

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.
Oliver Hong Added by Oliver Hong
Brooklyn, New York

Steve's Authentic Key Lime Pies

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."
Added by Mordy
Bronx, New York

Bronx Zoo Bug Carousel

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.
daviddoochin Added by daviddoochin
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.
Luke J Spencer Added by Luke J Spencer
New York, New York

'Life Underground' Sculptures

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.
atimian Added by atimian
Bronx, New York

Woodlawn Cemetery

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.
Oliver Hong Added by Oliver Hong
New York, New York

Barthman's Sidewalk Clock

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.
EricGrundhauser Added by EricGrundhauser