Tonight, in just a few minutes, Eastern Daylight Time, New Yorkers will experience the celestial phenomenon known as "Manhattanhenge" (Manhattan + henge, as in Stonehenge). It's one of the two evenings every year that the setting sun lines up in just the right place to illuminate all the cross streets. Such a radiant alignment in the heart of one of the world's most secular cities makes you feel sorry for future archaeologists, who will undoubtedly write books about how very mystical and spiritual the people in those huge temples were back then.
There's also something of a counterpart on the West Coast, known as Goldengatehenge
but it doesn't sound quite as dramatic as New York.
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