New Orleans, Louisiana
The Gates of Guinee
According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.
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New Orleans, Louisiana
According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.
New York, New York
A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.
Seattle, Washington
Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.
New York, New York
The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.
New York, New York
A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.
Cleveland, Ohio
The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.
Baltimore, Maryland
It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”
Portland, Oregon
The magic's in the hole!
New York, New York
This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.
New York, New York
This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.
Brooklyn, New York
Ride the subways of yesteryear.
Natural Bridge, Virginia
A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."
New Orleans, Louisiana
This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.
Rye, Colorado
The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.
Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
The world's longest known cave system.
Scottsboro, Alabama
One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.
Florence, Colorado
This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
New York, New York
More gold than anywhere else, ever.
Chiefland, Florida
A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.
Boston, Massachusetts
Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.
Washington, D.C.
Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.