The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

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

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.