New York, New York
Marilyn Monroe’s Subway Grate
This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.
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New York, New York
This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.
Paris, France
A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.
Rome, Italy
Italian horror legend Dario Argento’s own shop hides a sinister museum-dungeon in the basement.
London, England
London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.
Portland, Oregon
This café is dedicated to serving coffee roasted by Native American-owned companies.
Mexico City, Mexico
This old-school café is famous for serving coffee, chilaquiles, and the Cuban Revolution.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.
New Orleans, Louisiana
It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.
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 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.
Mexico City, Mexico
At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.
Mexico City, Mexico
This museum dedicated to cartography is housed in a former 17th-century convent.
Mexico City, Mexico
Inside a busy metro station, an impressive mural depicts the prehispanic city of Tenochtitlán.
Los Angeles, California
Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.
Springfield, Massachusetts
The largest collection of historic military firearms in the United States.
Montezuma, New Mexico
A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.
Guadalupe, California
Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.
Pismo Beach, California
Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.
Bogotá, Colombia
This tiny shop has been serving traditional tamales for more than 200 years.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.
Lawton, Oklahoma
Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.
Los Angeles, California
Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.
Big Pine, California
Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.