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

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

The most confusing clock in New York.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world's largest chess board.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

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

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.