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Hulu’s Up To Speed program travels the country in search of places of interest you would never find in a travel book. In this episode, the show’s eccentric tour guide, Timothy “Speed” Levitch, takes Manhattan, revealing some of the city’s completely ignored, yet highly fascinating, spots.

Here are just a few of the questions that Speed tackles in this episode:

• Where is the actual subway grate Marilyn Monroe stood on, in which a wind gust blew her dress into the air? 
• Why did Broadway, which runs diagonally, refuse to play ball when much of the city was laid out as a grid, and why does it curve in parts, rather than continue as a straight line?
• What was the true inspiration for the design of the Statue of Liberty?

ENJOY!