The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

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

Here be dragons.

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

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.

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

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

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

Check out the underground party scene at the "Burning Man of Brooklyn."

Steam out your ears for New Year's Eve.

One of the remaining markers of an era when Brooklyn and Flatbush were separate cities.

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

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.