Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

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

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

Fake subway tiles were installed to cover a design that resembled the Confederate flag—it's unclear if the resemblance was intentional.

The graveyard holds the remains of Irish immigrants who arrived in Queens after fleeing the Great Famine.

The oldest Methodist church in the United States has been spreading the good news for over two centuries.

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

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

This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

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

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

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

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

Here be dragons.

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

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.

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

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

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

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.