This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

These craggy limestone outcrops offer a glimpse at a unique piece of Florida geology.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

A retired oil tanker now offering amazing views of New York City.

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

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

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

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

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

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.

A controversial magical figure is hidden within a diorama of the city.

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

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

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

Here be dragons.

Recovered suit of a cannibalistic West African gang.

This theater opened in 1998, but both the building and the puppeteers who perform there have a distinguished history.

A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

This nearly invisible wire transforms much of the city into one big, symbolic home on the holy day.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.