A large boulder marks the place where the island of Manhattan was purportedly "sold" to the Dutch.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

This unusual subway stop was originally a real estate office.

Rare moles meet activism at this Oaxacan eatery.

The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.

This Manhattan skyscraper is a reminder of the brief but glorious age of urban air taxis.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world’s largest chess board.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

A playground the size of a city block is a modernist monument to civic values and public housing.

Nope, not Washington Irving's house.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.