The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

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

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

2,000 barrels of aging beer hidden in a warehouse at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

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

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Abandoned 19th century homes once occupied by naval officers, soon to be demolished.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

This impressive mansion in Vinegar Hill has some mysterious details in its architecture.

A big shiny gin and whiskey distillery in Sunset Park.

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

Hidden deep within New Jersey Pine Barrens is a massive graffiti wonderland.

Beautiful stained glass depictions of the history of human flight fill this surprising chapel.

The highest point in New Jersey is marked by a massive, if simply named, obelisk.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

Tucked behind New Jersey's abandoned Gingerbread Castle lie the eerie ruins of a once-flourishing paper mill.

A historic grist mill and active sluice on the Black River.