Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

Discover the taste of mold.

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.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

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

A quick trip around the globe through an amazing miniature exhibit.

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

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.

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

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

The rare American Civil War-era weapon was never fired in anger.

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

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

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

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

This old estate is a remnant of when the Bronx was a popular summer destination for wealthy New Yorkers.

A one-ton statue of Steve Rogers beautifies the entry to a Brooklyn Bed, Bath & Beyond.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

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

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.