A bronze sculpture in the heart of Portland represents Maine’s most defining industry.

Delve into the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, harbor town history, and a quiet seaside garden at this charming library.

The first handmade canoe built by members of the Passamaquoddy in over a century.

A tribute to a hometown hero and surfing legend.

The last surviving bastion of the Baquet restaurant empire serves up superb soul food.

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

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

This Garden District mansion was built to be bigger and grander than its original owner's former partner turned rival.

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

Taxidermied cartoon heads, unseen illustrations, and famous characters all reside in this small gallery space.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

Colorful, cheeky signs spill out of legendary New Orleans folk artist Dr. Bob's Bywater studio warning you to "Be Nice—Or Leave."

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

The only Roman honorific column in Istanbul.

Turkish adventurer antiques in the heart of the Grand Bazaar.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

One of the newest mosques in a city filled with thousands.

This historic hotel preserves many treasures from its heyday hosting passengers on the Orient Express.

Taking the subway here means doing so over a bridge located in the middle of an estuary.