Worth the trip around New York City
The places with the most to tell about. The numbers match the map.
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New York's forts are the thing: 21 within 25 km, from Fort Jay on Governors Island (1794) at 2.7 km to Blockhouse No. 1 in the north of Central Park (1814) and the batteries around Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island, 13 km out. Nine lighthouses stand in the harbor and rivers, the Little Red Lighthouse (1921), Robbins Reef Light, the Blackwell Island Light. Belvedere Castle (1867) at 7.9 km is one of two castles.
Forty-one beaches in a city this dense takes some believing, Pebble Beach at 1.7 km and Pier 4 Beach at 2.1 km among them. The Smallpox Hospital ruin at 5.7 km and the Harlem Fire Watchtower (1857) are the odd survivors, and the Temple of Dendur at 8.2 km is one of 86 monuments. RLQuest checks that you walked there, not that you took the subway.
Each hexagon covers a little over 5 square kilometers. The brighter it glows, the more places are inside it. The numbers mark the highlights listed below; the dot in the middle is the center of New York City.
Few places to many
The places with the most to tell about. The numbers match the map.
A selection for each type, best known first. The number next to each heading counts everything RLQuest knows within the radius.
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RLQuest knows these places too. Which means:
Some of your daily quests lead to a real place near you. The app uses your location to check you were really there.
If you're the first person in RLQuest to complete a quest at a place, it's your first find. The Place Book shows you which kinds of place you're still missing.
Every walk uncovers tiles, each about 350 m across. Over time you can see which corners you know well, and where you've never set foot.
Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. As of 2026-09-30. The list shows the places RLQuest knows and isn't complete. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; author and license are credited on each photo.
