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Late May sounds good.
Here are some ideas for the tour so far:
(I'll start off with Manhattan):
Tesla's residences and hang-puts,
Madame Blatavsky's residence(s) and hang-outs
A walk through and around the financial district. Lots of strange architecture present there. Huuuuge amount of statues and gargoyles which can only be seen if you has the chance to loop up.
A view of the city from the skyways (is that the right word?) of Hunter College.
Ground Zero.
This big Masonic Lodge on 28th street (or something like that) they give tours. Did you know that Red Skelton was a 33rd degree Freemason?
Rosicrucian, theosophical, freemason places. Maybe we'll go for Hare Krishnas, and other orders, groups, etc.
Hmm...I'm seeing a Buckminster Fuller hang-out in one of the links which Caleigh sent to me (I'll post those links up a tad bit later.)
The tilted black cube at Astor Place (one should take notice at the murals on the wall of the Astor Place station on the 6 line. One may notice the main Freemason symbol of the compass and the square, in abstract form, present as the main figures of the mural.)
There are some Native American caves up in Inwood park (waaay Northern Manhattan.)
That's about it for Manhattan (for now. Please, please, please, please post more suggestions.)
Now let's do my current place of residence...: Staten Island (also known as Richmond County):
A few things come straight off the top of my head (except for my scalp):
A native wild turkey colony at the northern location of the Staten Island University Hospital (famous for treating George Harrison.) That's right. Wild turkeys living in the wild next to a hospital.
As suggested by Enamon: The Antonio Meucci museum. First inventor of the telephone AND of the Neurophone.
The Staten Island side of the Staten Island ferry. Before construction began you could look straight up and see that the building was built with the help of the Freemasonry Lodge of New york State.
Some of you probably googled Staten Island for weird stuff and came upon reports of some abandoned monastery by Wagner College in which a monk supposedly went insane and killed the other monks. Actually it was a Catholic boys' school and then, in the 1960s, it became a Catholic retreat. I'm not really for going there cause there's not much to explore.
Hmm. I'm forgetting something. While I try to remember whjat I forgot I'll mention that the only house in New York built by Frank Lloyd Wright is in Staten Island.
Ah! I remember what I forgot now. The largest private collection of Tibetan artifacts in the Western Hemisphere is on Staten Island in our very own Tibetan museum. Worth a trip. Kinda inspires me to go to Brighton Beach andf buy ancient Tibetan artifacts at flea markets. (For those of you who don't get the semi-joke: Russia is right next to China thus there's a constant trade of goods. It's not at all unlikely that a Tibetan artifact would be brought into the former Soviet Union and then brought to the U.S. by Russian immigrants.)
There's also the Moravian Cemetary which is quite close to my house. It dates back to the early 1800s, late 1700s, and contains numerous Freemason graves. Also contains the tomb of the first robber baron: Cornelius Vanderbilt. We might want to pay a visit to there but it's up to you.
Also New York Press reported a while ago that Staten Island reportedly has a relativly large amount of Bigfoot sightings in New york State (something like 8 out of 13 sightings overall.) I'll post a link up later.
That's it for Staten Island for now. If you have any more ideas or know of any more places to go to then please, please, please post it up.
I don't know that much weird stuff in the Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn. We can visit Lovecraft's former residence(s?) in Brooklyn and I'm pretty sure that our good old friend, Aleister Crowley, lived there for sometime as well. Also an issue of Fortean Times has some article about the Son of Sam (aka David Berkowitz) and related some info on weird paranormal stuff up in the Bronx.
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