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

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

A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

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

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.