This replica of a 16th-century French settlement memorializes one of the earliest attempts at a European settlement in North America.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

The one-time office of the architectural firm that ushered in the Gilded Age is now a Club Monaco.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.

This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.

A vibrant, 100-foot-tall mural dedicated to Evelyn Nesbit, the tragic icon of the Gilded Age.

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

This sculptural piece by the artist Tom Otterness doubles as a jungle gym.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

This diesel train serviced the Brooklyn waterfront for more than three decades.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

Here be dragons.

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.

Recovered suit of a cannibalistic West African gang.

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

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

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

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

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

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