If you stand under a skylight in the Visitor Center, you can see the bronze statue of Freedom high up on the dome outside.

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We're starting things off at the New Museum on the Bowery in Manhattan, where Tim and Brian will be diving deep into the "Ghosts in the Machine" exhibition, to check out pieces like Stan VanDerBeek's Movie-Drome, a dome dreamed up in the mid-60s that foresaw a world in which the viewer is bombarded by visual stimuli.

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After a shaky start - with fewer than 5, 000 visitors on some days in January - admission figures for the Dome are picking up.

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