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New York, New York

Toynbee Tiles

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.
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Rose Hill Historic House

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.
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Collyer Brothers Park

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.
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The Wizard of Park Avenue

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.
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Padre Pio Shrine

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.
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Gimbel's Bridge

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.
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Radio City Music Hall's Secret Apartment

Built as a gift to the hottest tastemaker of the time, these hidden quarters remain an Art Deco showpiece.
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New York's Hidden Tropical Forest

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.
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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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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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Roosevelt Island Smallpox Hospital Ruins

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.
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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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Campbell Apartment

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.
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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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6 1/2 Avenue: Manhattan's Secret Street

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.
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The Peace Fountain at Cathedral of St. John the Divine

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.
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Greenacre Park

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.
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Roosevelt Island Octagon Tower

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.
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Shinran Statue

Hiroshima survivor on Riverside Drive.
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New York Herald Monument

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.
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West Side Cow Tunnels

NYC's legendary underground network for bovine transportation.
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Keen's Steakhouse

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.
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El Sabroso

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.
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The Daily News Building Globe

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.