This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

This hidden oasis features a stunning view of the Hudson River and the Palisades from a castle-like museum.

Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

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

Here be dragons.

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

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

An aptly-named street near the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

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

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

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

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

A Natural History and Science Emporium.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

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