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USA · 65 sights and 215 places to eat and drink, plus 67 bookable excursions, with why each earned a spot.

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🗿Statue of Liberty

Monument

Standing 305 feet from base to torch on her own island in New York Harbor, the Statue of Liberty is one of the most recognizable works of public art e…

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🕑 Monday: 8:30 AM – 6:30 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.5 (6.9K)

🏛️Fraunces Tavern

Landmark

Fraunces Tavern is one of the oldest surviving structures in Manhattan and the only building in New York City directly associated with George Washingt…

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🕑 Monday: 11:30 AM – 12:00 AM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.6 (33K)

🏛️Washington Square Park

Landmark

Washington Square Park is the living room of downtown New York, a democratic square where NYU students, chess hustlers, jazz musicians, dog walkers, s…

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🕑 Monday: 6:00 AM – 12:00 AM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (130K)

🏛️Empire State Building

Landmark

The Empire State Building remains the clearest expression of what New York once believed about itself: that height was destiny and steel and limestone…

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🕑 Monday: 10:00 AM – 11:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.3 (27K)

🖼️Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Museum

Frank Lloyd Wright's spiraling concrete rotunda on Fifth Avenue is one of the rare buildings that genuinely competes with the art inside it. The conti…

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🕑 Monday: 10:30 AM – 5:30 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.8 (946)

🌿Storm King State Park

Nature

Storm King rises steeply from the western bank of the Hudson about an hour north of Manhattan, its forested summit and open rocky outcrops commanding…

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🕑 Monday: 6:00 AM – 7:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.7 (61K)

🏛️Yankee Stadium

Landmark

The current Yankee Stadium, opened in 2009 in the South Bronx, is a baseball cathedral built to overwhelming scale, with a Great Hall of team history,…

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.8 (95K)

🖼️9/11 Memorial & Museum

Museum

The twin reflecting pools occupy the exact footprints of the original towers, and the sound of water falling into them from all four sides creates a c…

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🕑 Monday: 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.4 (179)

🏛️Lower East Side

Landmark

Once the most densely populated neighborhood on earth, the Lower East Side is New York's great immigrant palimpsest: a place where every generation ha…

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🕑 Monday: 8:00 AM – 11:00 PM

🏅 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations🏅 A Cook's Tour

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (130)

🌅Bear Mountain Lookout

Viewpoint

The summit lookout at Bear Mountain, topped by Perkins Memorial Tower, delivers a 360-degree panorama that takes in the Hudson River gorge, the rollin…

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🕑 Monday: Open 24 hours

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★ 4.9 (7)

🏛️Greenwich Village Historic District

Landmark

Greenwich Village's landmarked streets preserve the closest thing New York has to a European quarter: irregular blocks, Federal and Greek Revival rowh…

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🏛️Rockefeller Center

Landmark

Fourteen Art Deco skyscrapers rising from the midtown grid, Rockefeller Center is one of the few places in New York where the ambition of the 1930s is…

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.6 (5K)

🖼️The Frick Collection

Museum

Housed in the Gilded Age mansion of steel magnate Henry Clay Frick on Fifth Avenue, this intimate collection feels less like a museum and more like a…

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🕑 Monday: 10:30 AM – 5:30 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS$★ 4.6 (1.5K)

🖼️Ellis Island

Museum

Between 1892 and 1954, roughly 12 million immigrants passed through the Great Hall on Ellis Island on their way to becoming Americans, and standing in…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.5 (34)

🌅New York Skyline Viewing Point

Viewpoint

The classic Manhattan skyline view from the waterfront in Weehawken or along the Jersey City esplanade presents the full theatrical sweep of Midtown a…

🕑 Monday: Open 24 hours

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.8 (95K)

🖼️The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Museum

The Met is not a museum you conquer in a single visit. Its encyclopedic collection of more than two million objects spans five thousand years of human…

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🕑 Monday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 5.0 (1)

🏛️Gramercy Park Historic District

Landmark

Gramercy Park is the only private park left in Manhattan, accessible only to residents of the surrounding townhouses and a handful of luxury hotels wi…

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🕑 Monday: Open 24 hours

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (917)

🗿Irish Hunger Memorial

Monument

One of the most quietly affecting memorials in New York City, the Irish Hunger Memorial in Battery Park City transports visitors onto a quarter-acre l…

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🕑 Monday: 8:00 AM – 8:30 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.8 (124)

🌅Shawangunk Mountains Lookout

Viewpoint

The white conglomerate ridgeline of the Shawangunks, known locally as the Gunks, offers lookout points that survey a vast Hudson Valley panorama stret…

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.5 (6.5K)

🖼️Museum of the City of New York

Museum

Perched at the top of Museum Mile on Fifth Avenue facing Central Park, the Museum of the City of New York is the most authoritative place in the city…

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🕑 Monday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.8 (9.1K)

🖼️The Met Cloisters

Museum

Perched above the Hudson River in Fort Tryon Park at the northern tip of Manhattan, the Cloisters assembles actual architectural elements from five me…

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🕑 Monday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.8 (1.7K)

🌿Greenacre Park

Nature

One of Midtown Manhattan's best-kept open secrets, this privately funded pocket park on East 51st Street is anchored by a dramatic 25-foot waterfall w…

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🕑 Monday: 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.6 (27K)

🖼️American Museum of Natural History

Museum

Few institutions in the world match the sheer scope of the American Museum of Natural History, where a 94-foot blue whale hangs suspended in the Milst…

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🕑 Monday: 10:00 AM – 5:30 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS$$$★ 4.6 (61K)

🖼️The Museum of Modern Art

Museum

MoMA holds what is arguably the greatest collection of modern and contemporary art assembled under one roof anywhere on earth: Van Gogh's 'The Starry…

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🕑 Monday: 10:30 AM – 5:30 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.8 (5.6K)

🌿Minnewaska State Park Preserve

Nature

Perched atop the Shawangunk Ridge in the Hudson Valley, Minnewaska is defined by its extraordinary sky lakes: crystalline, spring-fed bodies of water…

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🕑 Monday: 9:00 AM – 8:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (90K)

🌅Top of The Rock

Viewpoint

The observation deck atop 30 Rockefeller Plaza offers something the Empire State Building cannot: an unobstructed view of the Empire State Building it…

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🕑 Monday: 8:00 AM – 12:00 AM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.6 (6.8K)

🏛️Chrysler Building

Landmark

The Chrysler Building is the Art Deco masterpiece that Midtown Manhattan quietly holds over every other skyscraper in the city, its stainless steel ea…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.5 (12)

🏛️Time Landscape

Landmark

On a small, fenced plot at the corner of LaGuardia Place and Houston Street grows a dense tangle of oak, sassafras, and flowering dogwood that looks n…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 3.4 (4.7K)

🌿Central Park

Nature

Central Park's 843 acres are one of the great acts of urban imagination in history, a fully designed landscape that somehow manages to feel genuinely…

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🕑 Monday: Open 24 hours

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (266)

🌿Hallett Nature Sanctuary

Nature

A four-acre woodland refuge tucked along the southern edge of Central Park's Pond, Hallett Nature Sanctuary is one of Manhattan's rare truly quiet pla…

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🕑 Monday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.9 (24)

🌅Roosevelt Island viewpoint

Viewpoint

Standing at the southern tip of Roosevelt Island, near the FDR Four Freedoms Park, you get one of the most unusual and underappreciated views of Manha…

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.5 (15K)

🖼️Whitney Museum of American Art

Museum

Renzo Piano's asymmetric industrial building at the foot of the High Line in the Meatpacking District is the right home for American art that has neve…

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🕑 Monday: 10:30 AM – 6:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.8 (1.9K)

🖼️Museum of Broadway

Museum

Opened in late 2022, the Museum of Broadway is the first permanent institution dedicated to the full sweep of the Great White Way, tracing the art for…

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🕑 Monday: 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (16K)

🌿Bear Mountain State Park

Nature

Closest of New York's grand parks to the city, Bear Mountain delivers a genuine mountain experience within 50 miles of Midtown: the summit at nearly 1…

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🕑 Monday: 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.7 (47K)

🖼️Intrepid Museum

Museum

The USS Intrepid, a Second World War-era Essex-class aircraft carrier permanently docked on the Hudson at Pier 86, is one of those places where the sc…

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🕑 Monday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.1 (5.4K)

🖼️ARTECHOUSE NYC

Museum

ARTECHOUSE NYC occupies a raw, cavernous basement space in Chelsea Market and transforms it into large-scale, floor-to-ceiling immersive digital art e…

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🕑 Monday: 12:00 – 7:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.7 (26)

🏛️Stone street peatonal

Landmark

Stone Street in the Financial District is one of the oldest paved streets in Manhattan, a narrow cobblestoned lane lined with 19th-century counting ho…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.8 (259)

🌿Hernshead

Nature

A small, rocky promontory on the western shore of Central Park's Lake, Hernshead is one of the park's most quietly beloved perches, jutting into the w…

🕑 Monday: 6:00 AM – 1:00 AM

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⛶ PHOTOS$$$★ 4.7 (26K)

🌅One World Observatory

Viewpoint

Perched on floors 100 through 102 of the Western Hemisphere's tallest building, One World Observatory delivers a 360-degree panorama that stretches on…

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🕑 Monday: 9:00 AM – 9:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.6 (81K)

🌿The Battery

Nature

At the very southern tip of Manhattan, The Battery is a 25-acre waterfront park that delivers some of the most quietly spectacular views in New York:…

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🕑 Monday: 6:00 AM – 1:00 AM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.8 (992)

🌿Kaaterskill Wild Forest

Nature

The Kaaterskill Wild Forest in the Catskills is the landscape that taught Americans what wilderness beauty meant: Hudson River School painters, Thomas…

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🕑 Monday: 7:30 AM – 8:30 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (37K)

🌅SUMMIT One Vanderbilt

Viewpoint

SUMMIT One Vanderbilt is the most theatrically designed observation experience in New York, occupying the upper floors of the sleek supertall tower di…

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🕑 Monday: 8:00 AM – 12:00 AM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.8 (73)

🌅Bear Mountain Bridge scenic lookout

Viewpoint

The Bear Mountain Bridge crosses the Hudson River in a single sweeping arc between two forested ridgelines, and the scenic lookouts at either end of t…

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🕑 Monday: Open 24 hours

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.4 (5.1K)

🖼️Color Factory NYC

Museum

This large-scale interactive installation in SoHo is an unapologetically joyful walk through rooms designed entirely around color, sensation, and play…

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🕑 Monday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (18K)

🏛️Little Island

Landmark

Floating off the Hudson River shoreline at Pier 55 in the West Village, Little Island is a genuinely unusual public space: a park built on 132 tulip-s…

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🕑 Monday: 6:00 AM – 11:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.8 (94K)

🏛️Brooklyn Bridge

Landmark

Walking the Brooklyn Bridge pedestrian promenade is one of those New York rituals that never stops being extraordinary, the Gothic granite towers fram…

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.4 (6.2K)

🖼️Museum of Sex

Museum

The Museum of Sex, steps from Madison Square Park on Fifth Avenue, approaches human sexuality as a legitimate subject of art, science, and cultural hi…

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🕑 Monday: 1:00 – 9:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (1.2K)

🌅Alpine Lookout

Viewpoint

Perched on the Palisades cliffs in Alpine, New Jersey, directly across the Hudson from Yonkers, the Alpine Lookout delivers one of the most dramatical…

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🕑 Monday: Open 24 hours

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.7 (5.3K)

🖼️The Morgan Library & Museum

Museum

Financier J.P. Morgan assembled one of the greatest private collections of manuscripts, rare books, and drawings in the world, and his original librar…

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🕑 Monday: Closed

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.8 (483)

🖼️Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation

Museum

The Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation, which opened at the American Museum of Natural History in 2023, is one of the most a…

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🕑 Monday: 10:00 AM – 5:30 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.8 (5.5K)

🌿Croton Gorge Park

Nature

Croton Gorge Park is anchored by one of the most theatrical sights in the lower Hudson Valley: the New Croton Dam overflow, a massive granite-faced st…

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🕑 Monday: 8:00 AM – 7:30 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.7 (2K)

🏛️Lyndhurst Mansion

Landmark

Perched above the Hudson River in Tarrytown, Lyndhurst is one of America's finest Gothic Revival estates, a romantic pile of towers and turrets surrou…

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🕑 Monday: 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (741)

🏛️The Channel Gardens

Landmark

The Channel Gardens is a narrow, fountain-lined promenade cutting through the heart of Rockefeller Center, flanked by the La Maison Francaise and the…

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🕑 Monday: Open 24 hours

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.8 (36)

🌿Mill Rock Park

Nature

Mill Rock is a tiny island sitting in the Hell Gate passage of the East River, visible from the Carl Schurz Park esplanade on the Upper East Side, and…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.8 (79)

🌅Wood Chip Vantage Point

Viewpoint

A low-key, mulched overlook in Central Park that rewards those who wander off the main paths with a quietly framed view of the Midtown skyline reflect…

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🕑 Monday: 6:00 AM – 1:00 AM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (247K)

🏛️Times Square

Landmark

Times Square is overwhelming by design. The 40-plus stories of LED billboards, the density of 300,000 people per day, the smell of roasting nuts from…

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🖼️National Museum of the American Indian

Museum

The New York branch of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian occupies the magnificent Beaux-Arts Custom House in lower Manhattan, o…

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🖼️Museum of Illusions - New York

Museum

A compact, high-energy attraction in Midtown built around optical illusions, holograms, and rooms that trick the brain into seeing the impossible. The…

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🕑 Monday: 10:00 AM – 10:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 5.0 (3)

🗿Emma Goldman Plaque

Monument

A modest bronze plaque in the East Village marks the neighborhood where Emma Goldman lived, organized, and agitated at the turn of the 20th century, t…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.4 (26)

🏛️Minimalist Fountain

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Tucked within Battery Park City's carefully designed public art landscape, the Minimalist Fountain is the kind of installation that rewards slow atten…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.5 (7.3K)

🏛️Belvedere Castle

Landmark

Perched on Vista Rock at the geographic heart of Central Park, Belvedere Castle is a storybook Victorian folly built not to be lived in but to be look…

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🕑 Monday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

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🌿The Ravine

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The Ravine in Central Park is the park's only remaining truly wild landscape, a heavily wooded hollow in the northern end where the Loch stream runs t…

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🕑 Monday: 6:00 AM – 1:00 AM

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🏛️Ladies Mile Historic District

Landmark

Stretching along Sixth Avenue and Broadway between 14th and 23rd Streets, the Ladies Mile Historic District preserves the grandest commercial architec…

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🏛️East Village Rock n' Punk Tour

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A walking tour through the streets that gave the world punk, hardcore, and no-wave, tracing the ghosts of CBGB, Tompkins Square Park riots, and the sq…

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🗿Greenwich Village Historic Marker

Monument

Scattered through the winding, pre-grid streets of the Village, these cast-metal markers anchor specific addresses to the writers, artists, activists,…

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