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.

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

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

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

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

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

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

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

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

Dynastic Home of the De Piro Family.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

A centuries-old forgotten underworld lies beneath Malta.

The remains of a 1st-century aristocratic Roman town house featuring beautiful well-preserved mosaics.

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

The decor of this Hollywood movie palace just barely predated the opening of King Tut's tomb.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.