South Street Seaport

A pretty unique spectacle of seeing human bodies prepared for anatomical displays and preserved in polymers. What most people have only seen in books and drawings creates a very different impression when looking at it as a real 3-dimensional structure. Most impressive is how small the core of the body with all its densely packed organs really is once skin, fat muscles and bones are removed. Students carrying anatomy textbooks and having excited discussions pointing out things in latin shows that even people who deal with the inner workings of the human body don't get to see such details very often.