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.

Red Hook's massive public pool, built by Robert Moses.

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

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

"Leave a He-Man, Take a Transformer" and share a story about your real-life superhero.

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

The French deconstructionist had a weakness for baked goods.

The best way to get a sneak peek at the movies.

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

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

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

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.

This eclectic sculpture garden in Brooklyn, home to a bizarre collection of art, was once a run-down junkyard.

The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.

The site where Joe Gallo kept his guns, pet lion, and launched an all out mob war in 1960s Brooklyn.

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

This elaborate tunnel is the first structure composed of cast concrete in the United States.

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.

A commemorative plaque hides a door that leads down to the New York Public Library's underground book bunker.

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

This nearly invisible wire transforms much of the city into one big, symbolic home on the holy day.

One of the last taxidermists in New York City.