For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

The scarce remains of a sunken ship peek out from the sand on East Beach.

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

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

Recovered suit of a cannibalistic West African gang.

Here be dragons.

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

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

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

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

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

The mysterious image is believed to show Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, in a beautiful blue dress.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

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

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

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