Stunningly detailed mosaics in a New York subway station bring life to the Weimaraners of artist William Wegman's work—and to thousands of commutes.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

This study room in the New York Public Library saw the creation of one of contemporary America's greatest traitors.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

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

The lesser-known Alice sculpture of Central Park dedicated to the “godmother of American children.”

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

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

An homage to Jackie Gleason's bus-driving character from 'The Honeymooners.'

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.

An aptly-named street near the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement.

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

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

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

Here be dragons.