A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

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

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

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.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

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.

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.

A historic lighthouse steeped in rumors of ghost and pirate stories.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

A tribute to the pop culture icon overlooks this Washington D.C. intersection.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

The privately owned cemetery that holds room for Washington's finest when they step down from life.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

The national park was once a plantation estate.