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New York, New York

Le Train Bleu Restaurant

On the top floor of an upscale department store stands a lavish restaurant housed in a replica of a luxury French dining car.
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P.S. 186

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.
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Marilyn Monroe's Subway Grate

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.
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Brazenhead Books

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.
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Unicorn Tapestries at the Cloisters

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.
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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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The Ramble Cave

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.
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Berlin Wall Section

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.
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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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Roosevelt Island Tramway

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.
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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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Freedom Tunnel

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.
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The New York Earth Room

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.
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New York Federal Gold Vault

More gold than anywhere else, ever.
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High Bridge

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.
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Times Square Hum

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.
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Pier 54: The Titanic's Arrival Destination

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.
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The Elevated Acre

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.
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Museum of the American Gangster

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.
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Hess Triangle

New York City's smallest piece of private property.
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Lower East Side Toy Company (The Back Room)

Become a prohibition rebel.
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Goldbar

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.
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Trinity Place Bank Vault Bar

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.
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Greenacre Park

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.