This museum collects over a century of automobile history including the iconic car from The Muppet Movie.

Stunningly detailed mosaics in a New York subway station bring life to the Weimaraners of artist William Wegman's work—and to thousands of commutes.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

Whale bones, scrimshaw, and sperm oil make up just a part of this comprehensive collection of whaling history.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

This mural celebrates the early integration of a New Hampshire baseball team.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

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.

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.

Here be dragons.

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