A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

A Yiddish theater turned movie house turned rock and roll landmark turned gay disco turned bank.

A playground the size of a city block is a modernist monument to civic values and public housing.

Walk over a 150 year old manhole.

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

This hidden oasis features a stunning view of the Hudson River and the Palisades from a castle-like museum.

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

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.

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

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

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

Where the legendary Orson Welles got his theatrical start before "Citizen Kane."

Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.

These small stands sell Malian snacks to worshippers and passersby after Friday prayers in Harlem.