Museum Ratings: New York Federal Reserve

I had a guided tour booked for Tuesday of the Federal Reserve of New York. You can visit it with or without a tour, as they have a nice free exhibition about money through the ages, but to get the full benefit, you will need to book up a month in advance. Why? Because that is the only way to get access to the fabled gold vaults that lie 5 levels below the surface. The tour itself is fairly short, after all, there is only so much that you can say about gold being kept somewhere, but is fairly informative and interesting. I wasn't keen on the videos they kept showing, they seemed almost to be there just to pad the tour out. But you can't beat free, especially when you are given a novel keep-sake at the end of the tour. And so I would recommend it (I'd say probably book 2 months in advance if you want a choice of when to visit).