Tampa, Florida
Gasparilla Pirate Festival
Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.
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Tampa, Florida
Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.
Detroit, Michigan
Inside the Wayne County airport is an amazing collection of lights and sounds.
Detroit, Michigan
Detroit’s downtown castle is one of the oldest structures in the city.
Detroit, Michigan
One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.
Detroit, Michigan
Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.
Detroit, Michigan
This railway-turned-greenway provides a pedestrian link in downtown Detroit and celebrates urban artwork.
Detroit, Michigan
The grandiose interior of this bar speaks to its past as home to famous jewelers and railway offices.
Detroit, Michigan
To truly appreciate Detroit's landmark skyscraper, you have to step inside.
Detroit, Michigan
Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.
Detroit, Michigan
Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.
Montreal, Québec
A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.
Montreal, Québec
A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.
New Paltz, New York
This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.
Rochester, New York
The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.
Rochester, New York
Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.
Rochester, New York
The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.
Weatherly, Pennsylvania
This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.
Castleton, Vermont
This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.
Brooklyn, New York
Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.
New York, New York
The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.
New York, New York
Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.
New York, New York
In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.
New York, New York
Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.