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

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

The press that first printed the Book of Mormon.

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.

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.

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

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

No monkeying around, this fountain was really named after the classic sci-fi film.

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

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.

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

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

This abandoned artificial island off the coast of New York City is now home to dozens of harbor seals.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

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

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

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

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

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

A field in which God and his son Jesus purportedly appeared to a young farm boy named Joseph Smith.

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