One Place New York, NY - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Like DC, picking one place to visit in New York is very hard. I've been lucky to be able to make several trips to New York with my wife on her work trips over the last 10+ years. The place I would pick if you could only go to one place in New York is The Met.  First, it's a huge beautiful museum on the east side of Central Park. The contents of the museum can only be matched by one or two other museums on the planet.  It includes a complete Egyptian Temple and important examples of art from every culture and time period since the beginning of recorded history. That's not an exaggeration. And a ticket will get you in  a few other properties owned by the Met including the Cloisters on the northern tip of Manhattan. Click on the link below and you can tour the Met virtually.

Websites: Met Museum, Virtual Met Visit.

Images:

Front of the museum (from nyc-arts.org)

Temple of Dendur (from metmuseum.org)