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

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

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

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.

This historic church with a connection to "Uncle Sam" is now a fraternity house.

This relic of 19th-century infrastructure is one of the few remaining coal gas storage tanks in the U.S.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

Once forgotten, this strip of sand was a rare beachside haven for Black Americans in Atlantic City.

Amazingly, this old machine within the Resorts Casino still functions.

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

A statue commemorating the heroic life of a Viking postman who was the Godfather of California skiing.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

A simple plaque remembers a California island massacre that claimed more than 100 lives.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

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