The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

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

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

This translucent sculpture represents a quintessential component of New York City's skyline.

Before online banking and smartphone apps, there was "commuter banking" in the subway in Downtown Brooklyn.

A commemorative plaque hides a door that leads down to the New York Public Library's underground book bunker.

Slurp sesame noodles at the third-generation family-run establishment that invented them.

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

This Art-Deco movie palace is the oldest independent cinema in Atlanta.

The first integrated firehouse in Atlanta houses a museum on the history of desegregation in the city's fire department.

After being inoperative for over half a century, this elaborate fountain in Atlanta's oldest park was restored to its former glory.

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

One of the oldest Black communities in western North Carolina and one of the largest Black Mennonite congregations in the country.

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

The second-tallest water tower shaped like a peach in the American South.

Built in 1927, this pink stucco hotel once hosted stars of Hollywood’s silent movie era. Now it's being brought back to life.

A tiny twin to Seattle's Fremont troll hides from the Florida sun under the Atlantic Boulevard drawbridge.

At Bern's Steak House, there's always room for dessert—it's just upstairs.

The country’s largest boat parade honors an infamous Spanish pirate—who never actually existed.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.