This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

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

Become a prohibition rebel.

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

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

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

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

A white oak with property rights.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

Charnel house at the foot of Mount Sinai.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.