This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

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

The painter who popularized "bulls" and "bears" as symbols for the stock market didn't get a proper headstone for over a century.

The final resting place of a former Dodgers and Mets player can be found in central Brooklyn, in the first diocesan cemetery for Catholics in the borough.

This former water source for the City of Brooklyn is now a thriving natural wetland.

The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.

This controversial statue has migrated twice in its life.

One of the remaining markers of an era when Brooklyn and Flatbush were separate cities.

A remnant of the original World Trade Center complex continues to serve as a commuter gateway.

A line number in Amsterdam that will likely never be used again due to its tragic history.

The real "father of baseball" rests in Brooklyn.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

The mass grave of a heroic Revolutionary War regiment sits below an empty lot near the Gowanus Canal.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

The humble beginnings of one of America’s greatest songsmiths.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

Fort Garry was a pivotal post for the Hudson’s Bay Company and a major factor in the economy and political culture of the area.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

This striking arch, one of the first architectural elements constructed in Prospect Park, was recently restored to its original glory.