Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

This whimsical fountain pays tribute to Toronto's four-legged friends.

One of the largest underground systems runs under Canada's largest urban center.

This "Palace of Purification" has made many film appearances as a dark and sinister headquarters.

This massive, ancient stone was disassembled and then put back together again.

The oldest landmark of Toronto is a testament to shifting sands.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

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.

A cruise terminal that changes the atmosphere of Red Hook's industrial waterfront.

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 impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

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

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

Here be dragons.

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

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

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

This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.