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

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

One of the world's largest collections of pharmaceutical artifacts.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.