Once home to a booming 19th-century oil town, the park now houses a World War II submarine memorial complete with a torpedo.

This unique religious structure is an architectural gem with arresting ocean views.

This tiny, tranquil Senegalese island serves as a powerful symbol of the Atlantic slave trade.

This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.

Despite a fraught and controversial history this African island holds a powerful monument to the tragedy of the slave trade.

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

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

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

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

Dozens of striking Indian symbols cover the second-floor hallways of this rural courthouse.

One of the few places where you can explore a 1918 paddlewheel steamboat from stem to stern.

One of the last few period-correct, hand-operated canal locks in the country.

This restaurant proudly displays bread signed by the 39th president.

All that remains of a gigantic earth-moving machine.

Hundreds of 19th-century characters descend upon an Ohio town every autumn.

A circle of giant painted vases in the former pottery capital of the United States.

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.