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

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

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

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

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 impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

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

A controversial magical figure is hidden within a diorama of the city.

Inside this community-run museum, visitors are treated to the history of toys and games.

This rare polygonal meeting house is rumored to be built in a circle so that the devil has nowhere to hide.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

An abandoned dollhouse factory.

A historic Black graveyard hidden in the parking lot of one of America's largest malls.

The second largest maple syrup producer in the U.S. runs a high-tech operation.

This high-perched pachyderm marks the memory of not one, but two elephants gunned down in small New England towns.

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

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

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.

Glacial erratic or man-made dolmen? It probably wasn't druids.

Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.

Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.