A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.

One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

This "life-size" depiction of Mickey Mouse as a half-lobster is both whimsical and a bit creepy, standing guard over the Boston waterfront.

A Yiddish theater turned movie house turned rock and roll landmark turned gay disco turned bank.

A grand New York post office that is home to mailman Santas, scraps of postal history, and a pneumatic mail system.

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

An accidentally hidden library containing the ephemeral history of New York.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

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

Nope, not Washington Irving's house.

This unusual subway stop was originally a real estate office.

A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.

The place where Dvořák composed some of his most famous works.

After surviving abandonment, this powerful Latin American mural is alive again.

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.

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

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

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

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.

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

Here be dragons.