And the answer is ...
d) Carnegie Hall
Over his 50 years in New York, con man George C. Parker sold the Brooklyn Bridge, Madison Square Garden, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Statue of Liberty, and Grant's Tomb several times over to unsuspecting victims. Since he handed over forged documents with the sale, some didn't even know they'd been conned! Parker was eventually sentenced to life in Sing Sing, but that hasn't stopped people from claiming to own ridiculous things.
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