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New York, New York

Holiday Nostalgia Train

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.
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Oldest Manhole Cover

Walk over a 150 year old manhole.
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Patent Pending

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.
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The Players

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.
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Antonín Dvořák's Home

The place where Dvořák composed some of his most famous works.
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Mmuseumm

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."
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Clock Tower Building

A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.
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Chinatown's Bloody Angle

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.
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Chinatown Ice Cream Factory

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.
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Durian NYC

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."
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Bluestockings Bookstore

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.
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Lenin Statue at Red Square

Salute the leader of the proletariat.
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Gulliver's Gate

A quick trip around the globe through an amazing miniature exhibit.
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Barthman's Sidewalk Clock

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.
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The John Street Methodist Church

The oldest Methodist church in the United States has been spreading the good news for over two centuries.
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Model Ship Collection at the South Street Seaport Museum

Set sail on a small scale.
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New York Produce Exchange Property Marker

A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.
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REACH: New York

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.
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Daredevil Tattoo Museum

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.
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First Shearith Israel Graveyard

Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.
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African Burial Ground National Monument

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.
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Septuagesimo Uno

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."
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NYC Barber Museum

This nostalgic blast from the grooming past is also a working barbershop.
New York, New York

Henry Bliss Plaque

A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.