This nearly invisible wire transforms much of the city into one big, symbolic home on the holy day.

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

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

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

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

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

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

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

Here be dragons.

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

One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.

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

Rare moles meet activism at this Oaxacan eatery.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

Order “Proletariat’s Cutlet” at this communist-themed restaurant allegedly once visited by Lenin.

This centuries-old wooden wonder was built in less than a year and is one of Europe's largest timber-framed churches.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

Crosses of all shapes, sizes and colors litter the mountain, the site of a huge yearly Orthodox pilgrimage.

The world’s narrowest house makes for an awkward, four-foot-wide living space.

A national collection of Communist-era musical posters.

This 700-year-old structure is one of the most unique architectural and historic monuments in Gdańsk.

This man-made mound monument was built out of soil from all across the Polish empire.

Naturally formed rock city in Poland.