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

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

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

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

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

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

These 20-foot sculptures will help guide you from the local train station to the local sculpture garden.

Once the world's largest reinforced concrete structure, this abandoned bridge now beckons urban explorers.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

Historic town settled in the 19th century because of its convenient location along a popular coal transport route.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.