Salem, Massachusetts
Lyceum Hall
The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.
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Salem, Massachusetts
The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.
San Francisco, California
Part mural and part sculpture, this work of art sits in the middle of the Promenade, as if swimming in a river of asphalt towards the ocean.
Berkeley, California
This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.
Boston, Massachusetts
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This is the house that spite built.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
A small plaque promises cold, hard cash in exchange for work by the famous pop artist.
Montreal, Québec
The skyline of Montreal includes the silhouette of an unexpected fruit-shaped Canadian staple.
Ottawa, Ontario
Now a public art piece, this curious metal feature originally advertised a tinsmith's services.
Ottawa, Ontario
A rare venue to buy specialty maps.
Ottawa, Ontario
This illuminated sign was the first of its kind in Canada and remains a vestige of the Atomic Age.
Ottawa, Ontario
Watch maple syrup being made without ever leaving the city.
Ottawa, Ontario
This inexpensive lodging house was once a prison notorious for its inhumane practices.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.
Boston, Massachusetts
Narrowest house in Boston.
Boston, Massachusetts
Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.
Boston, Massachusetts
The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.
New Orleans, Louisiana
After the oysters have been shucked, and the restaurant's been shuttered, the terrazzo sidewalk from the 1940s is all that remains.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.
New Orleans, Louisiana
An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.