Places to visit in New York, United States
29 places to visit in New York, United States, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Guggenheim Museum, Statue of Liberty, Brooklyn Bridge and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in your New York volume.
2 UNESCO World Heritage sites · 3 Heritage sites · 20 Famous places to visit · 4 Hidden gems
UNESCO World Heritage sites in New York (2)
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Guggenheim Museum
Frank Lloyd Wright's white spiral on Fifth Avenue, where a single ramp coils up around a skylit rotunda and the paintings hang along the way. The collection covers Impressionist, early Modern and contemporary art, and the museum began in 1939 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting.
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Statue of Liberty
A copper-clad woman holding a torch over New York Harbor, a gift from the people of France dedicated in 1886. Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi designed the figure and Gustave Eiffel the iron framework inside it, and the copper has long since weathered to green.
Heritage sites in New York (3)
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Brooklyn Bridge
Opened in 1883 as the first fixed crossing of the East River, linking Manhattan and Brooklyn, and at the time the longest suspension bridge in the world. A raised walkway runs above the traffic between its stone Gothic towers, with the harbour and the Manhattan skyline on either side.
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Central Park
The first landscaped park in the United States, 341 hectares of lawns, lakes and woodland laid out between the Upper West Side and the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Some 42 million visits a year make it the most visited urban park in the country.
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Ellis Island
The small island where about 12 million immigrants were inspected and processed between 1892 and 1954 on their way into the United States. Its great main building is now a national museum of immigration, reached only by ferry, on the same route as the Statue of Liberty.
Famous places to visit in New York (20)
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American Falls
The second largest of the three falls at Niagara, and the only one lying entirely within the United States. Rather than dropping straight into the river, it crashes onto a slope of fallen boulders, and Prospect Point looks along its very edge.
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American Museum of Natural History
Twenty-one connected buildings on the Upper West Side, across the road from Central Park, holding some 32 million specimens of fossils, animals, meteorites, minerals and human cultures. Its halls include a planetarium, and its dinosaur skeletons are among the most famous anywhere.
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Charging Bull
A bronze bull of 3,200 kilograms with its head lowered, standing on Broadway just north of Bowling Green in the Financial District. It stands for a rising market and for Wall Street itself, and draws thousands of people a day to pose beside it.
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Coney Island
A seaside neighbourhood at the southern edge of Brooklyn, once a true island, with a long beach, a boardwalk and old amusement parks. The wooden Cyclone roller coaster and the Wonder Wheel have been drawing New Yorkers to the shore for about a century.
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Empire State Building
An Art Deco skyscraper of 102 storeys, built between 1930 and 1931 and named after the nickname of New York state. It stands 443 metres to the tip of its antenna and was the tallest building in the world for almost four decades, until 1970.
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Flatiron Building
A 22-storey steel-framed building on a triangular block where Fifth Avenue meets Broadway, designed by Daniel Burnham and opened in 1902. Seen from the north, its narrow prow recalls the old cast-iron clothes iron that gave it its name.
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Grand Central Terminal
A Beaux-Arts rail terminal at 42nd Street and Park Avenue, the southern end of the Metro-North lines from the Hudson Valley and Connecticut. Its Main Concourse, with a gold clock at its centre and constellations painted across the ceiling, is one of the grandest rooms in the city.
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Intrepid Museum
A museum aboard the USS Intrepid, a Second World War aircraft carrier moored at Pier 86 on the Hudson. Aircraft line its flight deck, the Space Shuttle Enterprise sits in a pavilion on board, and a Concorde and the submarine Growler wait alongside.
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Jackson Heights
A Queens neighbourhood where half the residents were born abroad, called by The New York Times perhaps the most culturally diverse neighbourhood on the planet. Around 74th Street it turns South Asian, with sari shops, jewellers and sweet shops side by side.
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Letchworth State Park
A state park that follows the Genesee River for about 27 kilometres through a deep gorge and over several large waterfalls, south of Rochester. Its sheer cliffs and falls have earned it the name Grand Canyon of the East.
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Museum of Modern Art
A Midtown museum on 53rd Street whose collection follows art from the late 19th century to now: more than 200,000 works across painting, sculpture, design, photography and film. Few institutions have done as much to shape how modern art, European modern art above all, came to be understood.
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National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Two square pools sit in the footprints of the original Twin Towers, with water falling into a central void. Around their edges are cut the names of the 2,977 people who died in 2001 and the six who died in 1993, and the museum lies beneath, among the old foundations.
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Niagara Falls
Three waterfalls at the head of the Niagara Gorge on the border with Canada: the great Horseshoe Falls, mostly on the Ontario side, and the smaller American and Bridal Veil Falls within New York. Boats carry visitors right into the spray at the foot of the falls.
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One Vanderbilt
A 427 metre tower beside Grand Central, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and opened in 2020, the fourth tallest building in the city. Its SUMMIT observation deck near the top is lined with mirrors and glass that multiply the view over Midtown.
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One World Trade Center
The tallest building in the United States and in the Western Hemisphere, designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for the rebuilt World Trade Center. Its spire brings it to 541 metres, or 1,776 feet, a figure chosen for the year of American independence.
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Rockefeller Center
A complex of 19 commercial buildings in Midtown, its 14 original Art Deco towers commissioned by the Rockefeller family around a sunken plaza. In winter the plaza becomes a skating rink beneath a giant Christmas tree, and the Top of the Rock deck looks straight up Central Park.
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St. Patrick's Cathedral
The largest Gothic Revival Catholic cathedral in North America, filling a whole block of Fifth Avenue opposite Rockefeller Center. James Renwick Jr. designed it, and it is both a parish church and the seat of the Archbishop of New York.
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The High Line
A 2.3 kilometre park built on a disused railway spur raised above the streets of Manhattan's West Side. Planting designed by Piet Oudolf grows between the old rails, and the idea came from the Coulée verte, an elevated walk in Paris finished in 1993.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The largest art museum in the Americas, on Fifth Avenue at the edge of Central Park, with collections running from ancient Egypt to the present day. With more than 5.7 million visitors in 2025, it was the most visited museum in the United States.
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Times Square
A bowtie-shaped plaza where Broadway crosses Seventh Avenue at 42nd Street, lit day and night by giant digital billboards. It is the hub of the Theater District, where most Broadway theatres stand, and one of the busiest pedestrian crossings in the world.
Hidden gems in New York (4)
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Ganesh Temple, Flushing
A temple to Ganesha in Flushing, Queens, the second-oldest Hindu temple in the United States built by Indian immigrants. Its formal name is Sri Maha Vallabha Ganapati Devasthanam, and the canteen in its basement is known across the city for dosas and idlis.
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Niagara Falls State Park
Recognised as the oldest state park in the United States, it holds the American Falls, the Bridal Veil Falls and part of the Horseshoe Falls. Goat Island and Prospect Point give the closest views of the water from the American side.
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Watkins Glen State Park
A narrow gorge at the southern end of Seneca Lake in the Finger Lakes, where a stone trail climbs past a long run of waterfalls and pools. It first opened to the public in 1863 and has been a public park since 1906.
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Woodbury Common Premium Outlets
One of the largest outlet centres in the world, with about 220 stores in the Hudson Valley north of New York City. It opened in 1985 and has grown so large that its sections are colour-coded to help shoppers find their way.
Collecting in New York
What are the best places to visit in New York?
LOQAH lists 29 places in New York. The best known include Guggenheim Museum, Statue of Liberty, Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park and Ellis Island. Each has a stamp of its own to collect when you are there.
How many LOQAH stamps are there in New York?
29, and more are added over time. Each place has LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own.
How do I collect a stamp in New York?
Open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment; at the place itself the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge.
I have been to places in New York before. Can I add them?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose New York and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline. Each one goes into your volume with the date, if you know it.
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