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

Here be dragons.

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.

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

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

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

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

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

The most confusing clock in New York.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.