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

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

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

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

Here be dragons.

An incredible collection of Mesoamerican art assembled by one of Mexico's great artists.

A charming museum of natural history featuring dioramas and exhibits made entirely by college students.

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

A strange mark in the stone fence of a cemetery fabled to have been made by the Devil himself.

Come face to face with the ferocious visage of the serpent-headed mother goddess of the Aztecs.

This ancient jade mask depicting the Zapotec bat god was found in the ruins of the pyramids of Monte Alban.

This colossal ancient sculpture of the monstrous Aztec rain god has a literally stormy history.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

The turquoise-studded skull of a long-dead Aztec man sits within Mexico City’s Museum of Anthropology.

This mural celebrates the early integration of a New Hampshire baseball team.

Restaurant in a 1741 farmhouse that touts the story of its haunting on its menus.

The most complete statue of this Aztec god sits a top a throne carved with images of hallucinogenic plants.

At this museum in Iceland, visitors can sample fermented Greenland shark.

The "Mother Temple of the Pacific Islands" stands at the center of 20 acres of lush, tropical prayer gardens.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

The oldest colonial fortress in the Americas was once the home and later prison of Christopher Columbus.

This colossal ancient jaguar sculpture was used as a vessel for the hearts torn from sacrificial victims.

These sacred Mesoamerican ruins feature peculiar petroglyphs hidden in the stones.