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

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

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

A cruise terminal that changes the atmosphere of Red Hook's industrial waterfront.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

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

Here be dragons.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

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

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

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

A former seaside jewel built for the everyman is now simply a neglected art deco fortress.

A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.

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

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

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