New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

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

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

A former seaside jewel built for the everyman is now simply a neglected art deco fortress.

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

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

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

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

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

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

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

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

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

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

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

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.