This New Orleans boutique and nursery specializes in rare flora, with a focus on carnivorous plants.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

A waterway covered over after the Industrial Revolution has been unearthed and cleaned up, for the enjoyment of fish and humans alike.

Sip whey-based vodka at the first Native-owned distillery opened on a reservation in centuries.

A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.

Hidden on the seventh floor of a historic building, this Cajun spot features wall-to-wall bottles of hot sauce.

This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.

This museum is dedicated to the most famous Irish writers in history.

What killed this humpback whale is a mystery, but its remains have become legendary.

A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

An abandoned 1970s theme park that has been turned into a space for waterfront walking.

Straight out of a nightmare, barcode-faced babies climb up and down Prague's television tower.

In this quiet park a rendition of a classic painting graces the outside of a charming restroom.

This is the last hand-cranked chain ferry of its kind in operation in the United States.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

Those belting out show tunes in this West Village piano bar might not realize it marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.