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Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York City, New York

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Children may not have a sophisticated understanding of art, but they do love mummies, which you can see when you take your kids straight to the Temple of Dendur upon...

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Central Park

New York City, New York

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There is so much to do in this 843-acre park that it's practically worthy of a week all its own. To start, there's the Wollman Skating Rink during...

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Historical Landmark
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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

New York City, New York

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The most exciting moment of this 82-year-old parade is the same every year, but the anticipation of it only adds to the fun for kids: Santa's...

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Walt Whitman State Historic Birthplace Site

New York City, New York

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A sense of Long Island history and culture graces the quaint grounds of American poet Walt Whitman's birthplace home. In these rooms, Whitman conceived his most famous work of art, Leaves of Grass....

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Historical Landmark

The Phantom of the Opera

New York City, New York

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What would you do for love if you've never had it? Winner of seven Tony Awards, The Phantom of the Opera is a timeless Broadway classic about the nature of love, developing one's true talent, and letting love go....

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Niagara Power Project - Power Vista

Niagara Falls, New York

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A power generation plant shouldn't be this much fun. Kids touch, pull, crank, twist, and bang their way through science projects and experiments that show how energy and electricity are generated and consumed. "Faster, Mommy! Faster!" said one school-age...

Science & Nature Museum
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Shrek the Musical

New York City, New York

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Based on William Steig's book and the Oscar-winning DreamWorks film, Shrek the Musical tells the story of a swamp-dwelling ogre who goes on a life-changing adventure with a donkey....

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Toys "R" Us

New York City, New York

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A typical visitor report: "We were just passing through Times Square, when my child saw the Ferris wheel, and we had to go in." What? A Ferris wheel? In Times...