The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

This 19th-century sugarcane plantation is one of the most well-preserved estates of its kind, including its original quarters for enslaved laborers.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

American artist J. Alden Weir purchased this 60-acre estate for $10 and a painting.

A portrait of the Charter Oak hangs in a frame made from the Charter Oak.

The remnants of a 19th-century ironmaking complex hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

This picturesque Victorian ghost town was once a thriving mill community.

This classic steam-powered train takes tourists on a nostalgic trip around the Connecticut River Valley.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement served food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

A memorial to the 1913 tragedy that helped protect the workers of the future.

This local landmark is home to art galleries and the area's only community darkroom.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.

A Yale University president wears full samurai garb in one of America’s oldest cemeteries.

Made of bronze and wearing a blue gown, this lady sat in the same location in the Yantic Cemetery for more than 119 years.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.