This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

Home of the only civilian casualty at the Battle of Gettysburg.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

The original place where water met land in the City by the Bay is outlined in brass.

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

After serving in World War II and picking up Apollo astronauts, this aircraft carrier has been turned into a museum overlooking the San Francisco Bay.

An art collective teaching the more fiery, metal-y art forms.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.