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New York, New York

Relics of the IRT 14th Street-Union Square Subway Local Platform

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.
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Union Square Metronome

The most confusing clock in New York.
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Pomander Walk

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.
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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 Secret Entrance to the Knickerbocker Hotel

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.
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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.
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The Players

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.
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Nero Wolfe's Brownstone

The home of one of America's most beloved fictional characters has become a real world landmark.
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Toynbee Tiles

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.
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Exchange Bar & Grill

Test your business savvy and play the market for cocktails at this stock exchange-inspired watering hole.
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Private Passage

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.
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The Webster Apartments

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.
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The Treasures in the Trash Collection

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.
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James Farley Post Office Museum

A grand New York post office that is home to mailman Santas, scraps of postal history, and a pneumatic mail system.
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Plaque of Nikola Tesla on Radio Wave Building

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.
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West Side Cow Tunnels

NYC's legendary underground network for bovine transportation.
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The Hidden Holocaust Memorial of Madison Park

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.
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MoMath - The Museum of Mathematics

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.
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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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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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Houdini Revealed

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.
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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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300 West 38th Street

Cheap pizza and all of your naughty bedroom needs housed in a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture.
New York, New York

El Sabroso

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.