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[title]If you’re interested in the world below our feet, the cultures of faraway lands or the stars light-years beyond our reach, there is only one place to go to explore all of those subjects and more under one roof: The American Museum of Natural History. Founded in 1869, AMNH, situated across from Central Park on the Upper West Side, is one of NYC's premier museums, and also one of the largest institutions of its kind in the world. Featuring 45 permanent exhibition halls, a library and a planetarium (the Hayden Planetarium located in the The Rose Center for Earth and Space), AMNH is actually a sprawling complex of 28 interconnected buildings containing a collection of more than 33 million specimens and artifacts. Among them, you'll find dinosaur bones, of course, and there's probably no greater display of them than the complete skeletons of an Allosaurus and a Barosaurus, respectively, seen battling in a death match near the museum's entrance. This tableaux is just one of the many iconic permanent displays around AMNH that include the big blue whale model in the Hall Of Oceans and the many famed dioramas that have been drawing visitors for decades. But, as amazing as all of those are, the AMNH also has a slate of fascinationg special exhibitions devoted to the various wonders of nature. If you want to find out more about them, look no further that our guide to the current exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History.