Recovered suit of a cannibalistic West African gang.

Here be dragons.

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

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

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

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

These sculptures were designed to beautify this neighborhood when it was established in the 1940s.

A former connection to City Island, it has been abandoned since the 1930s.

The mosaic Star of David at the front of this store hints that it's no ordinary Italian grocer.

This lavish room in a New York City mansion is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.

Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

Collect holy water from a Bronx grotto.

An unassuming stone building houses New York City's oldest seismic station almost 30 feet below the Bronx.

Designed by famed 20th-century architect Cass Gilbert, the future of this abandoned 1908 rail station is currently in limbo.

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.

The lesser-known Alice sculpture of Central Park dedicated to the “godmother of American children.”

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.