Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

A park that allows you to get up close and personal with one of the world's largest open volcanic craters.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

These 11,000-year-old mounds may be the oldest known human-made structures in the Americas.

This memorial and the seawall that it stands near are powerful symbols of the island’s resilience.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

One of the 20th century’s most famous businessmen is buried in Houston’s most prestigious cemetery.

The largest underground pedestrian tunnel system in the U.S. mostly caters to the people working in the offices above, but provides a great, air-conditioned way to traverse the city.

Its collection is a sweet reminder of the shuttered factory.

Whether or not you take the 72-ounce steak challenge, there’s plenty of history, fun and Texas-style food at this legendary stop along Route 66.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

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

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

Burial site of the world's most widely known researcher on the endangered mountain gorilla.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

Where Santa Claus held up a Texas bank and started a statewide manhunt.

Hike the ruins of a zoo that was shut down by an unsolved murder.