An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

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

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

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

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

A massive forgotten storehouse from 1913 on the Brooklyn Waterfront has a spectacular view of Brooklyn.

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

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

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

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.

Here be dragons.

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

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

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

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

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

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.