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New York, New York

Patent Pending

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.
New York, New York

The Little Church Around the Corner

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.
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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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Private Passage

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.
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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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Greenacre Park

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.
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Sakagura

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.
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Gimbel's Bridge

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.
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Graybar Rats

Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.
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The Hidden Art Deco Tunnel Underneath the New Yorker Hotel

The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.
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Macy's Wooden Escalators

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.
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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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William J. Syms Operating Theatre

Once considered the height of medical modernity, this structure is now the oldest remaining component of Roosevelt Hospital.
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Track 61

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.
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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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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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Central Filing Bar

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.
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Times Square Station Fake Tiles

Fake subway tiles were installed to cover a design that resembled the Confederate flag—it's unclear if the resemblance was intentional.
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Campbell Apartment

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.
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El Sabroso

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

One of the last full-orchestra recording studios in New York City and an acoustical marvel.
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Paley Park

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.
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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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Cafe at the Swedish Church of New York

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.