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Michael Falco for The New York Times Sniffen Court on the East Side, a quaint alley from the 1860s. By SETH KUGEL THE Statue of Liberty, as you'd probably guess, is a New York City landmark. It is protected by law from modernizing scalawags who might want to pound windows into the folds of…

By MICHIKO KAKUTANI So, here it is at last: The final confrontation between Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived, the Chosen One, the “symbol of hope” for both the Wizard and Muggle worlds, and Lord Voldemort, He Who Must Not Be Named, the nefarious leader of the Death Eaters and…

Matt Gross for The New York Times Lunchtime at the Pink Store, which draws lots of tourists over the Mexican border into Palomas. By MATT GROSS THE border towns of Columbus, N.M., and Palomas, Mexico, lie just three miles apart, but that short distance — what you might drive to…

Chris Warde-Jones for The New York Times Aldo Balestreri, known as Padre Aldo, standing, talks with his customers. At-home trattorias are increasingly popular in Sicily. By DANIELLE PERGAMENT IT was lunchtime in Palermo, and in the old quarter, a small trattoria was filling up with…

Ariana Lindquist for The New York Times Some of the thousands of sandstone pillars of Wulingyuan. By SIMON WINCHESTER I AM in a deep, deep tunnel, die-straight and dark and two miles long, a fingernail of faraway brilliance at its mouth brightening every second until, with startling…