The numbers
Counts from the same 723 ratings as the rest of the site.
What it cost
Everything in New York, in tickets at the price when I went. 161 of the 243 were free; the other 81 averaged $20.
The 2024 Europe Trip: 266 places, 55 of them free.
Everything on the site: $5,517 in tickets.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Worth a detour or better | Skip |
|---|---|---|
| Free (161) | 19% | 16% |
| $1–15 (34) | 35% | 38% |
| $16–25 (26) | 54% | 4% |
| $26 and up (21) | 48% | 14% |
Of the 34 tickets of $15 or less, 13 were Skips. Two of the three priciest tickets in the city, SPYSCAPE ($53) and Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum ($50), were Skips too.
By borough
| Borough | Worth a detour or better | Skip |
|---|---|---|
| Manhattan (154) | 32% | 13% |
| Brooklyn (30) | 13% | 17% |
| Queens (21) | 19% | 33% |
| Staten Island (16) | 19% | 13% |
| The Bronx (13) | 31% | 38% |
| The bridges (9) | 22% | 33% |
Brooklyn has 30 places, and four are rated Worth a detour or better.
Historic houses
- Historic houses (26)8%
- Everything else (217)30%
The two worth a detour: Gracie Mansion and Historic Richmond Town. Five of the notes say only “Another historic house...”
Which 26 count
- Gracie Mansion
- Historic Richmond Town
- Alice Austen House Museum
- Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
- Bowne House
- Conference House Museum
- Dyckman Farmhouse Museum
- Hamilton Grange National Memorial
- King Manor Museum
- Lefferts Historic House
- Louis Armstrong House Museum
- Merchant House Museum
- Morris-Jumel Mansion
- Old Stone House
- Queens Historical Society
- Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
- Van Cortlandt House Museum
- Weeksville Heritage Center
- Wyckoff House Museum
- skipBilliou–Stillwell–Perine House
- skipEdgar Allan Poe Cottage
- skipLewis Latimer House Museum
- skipMount Vernon Hotel Museum
- skipTenement Museum
- skipVander Ende–Onderdonk House
- skipVoelker Orth Museum
Highlights vs. everything
| Where | Worth a detour or better |
|---|---|
| Everywhere I saw 12 or fewer (89 places) (238) | 61% |
| New York (243) | 28% |
| Tallinn (38) | 34% |
| Stockholm (36) | 31% |
| Copenhagen (34) | 38% |
| Oslo (30) | 30% |
| Helsinki (24) | 25% |
| Vilnius (20) | 35% |
| Boston (17) | 12% |
| Riga (16) | 25% |
| Kraków (14) | 43% |
| Warsaw (13) | 62% |
On a trip I pick the famous ones. In New York I went to all of them, including the Barber Shop Museum.
Tickets by country
| Country | Paid | Average ticket | Free |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | 7 | $25 | 0% |
| United States, outside NYC | 10 | $22 | 69% |
| Hungary | 5 | $20 | 38% |
| New York City | 81 | $20 | 67% |
| Ireland | 5 | $19 | 83% |
| Denmark | 26 | $18 | 30% |
| France | 9 | $16 | 40% |
| Finland | 30 | $15 | 21% |
| Sweden | 35 | $15 | 13% |
| Canada | 11 | $13 | 21% |
| Italy | 9 | $13 | 31% |
| Norway | 25 | $13 | 24% |
| Germany | 10 | $13 | 57% |
| Estonia | 37 | $11 | 8% |
| Latvia | 12 | $10 | 37% |
| Poland | 22 | $8 | 19% |
| Lithuania | 17 | $7 | 26% |
Ireland was free more often than New York: 25 of its 30.
Outside New York, by year
269 in 2024, 266 of them on the 2024 Europe Trip: 27 places in 10 countries. Not shown: five from before 2015, and 53 with no year recorded.
Would I go back?
- Don’t miss (7)100%
- Worth a detour (60)25%
- Worth a stop (134)5%
- Skip (42)2%
Every Don’t miss, yes. Exactly one Skip, too: Fort Tilden (“Pretty to look at, historical.”).
What I wrote
- Don’t miss (7)100%
- Worth a detour (60)87%
- Worth a stop (134)62%
- Skip (42)98%
I wrote a note for 41 of the 42 Skips. On trips the notes are shorter: a median of 5 words, against 16 in New York.
| Word | Notes | Skip | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| stunning | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| fantastic | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| beautiful | 13 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 1 |
| cool | 31 | 1 | 18 | 10 | 2 |
| interesting | 45 | 4 | 16 | 20 | 5 |
| meh | 12 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 |
- Historic houses
- 15 notes
- Little or no English
- 8 notes
- Kids
- 8 notes
- Tourist traps
- 6 notes
- SPYSCAPE, Museum of Sex, Fraunces Tavern Museum, Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum, Museum of Broadway, Mozart’s Birthplace
The longest note is 47 words, for Coney Island Museum, rated Skip.
Every number here comes from the downloadable data.