New York, New York
The SeaGlass Carousel
Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.
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New York, New York
Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.
Valentine, Texas
An old adobe structure first built in the 1890s is a desert watering hole plastered with dollar bills and odd West Texas finds.
Big Pine Key, Florida
Thousands of signed dollar bills turn a simple tavern into a living record of travelers’ comings and goings.
Upton, England
This traditionally British fish and chip shop is one of the few that still cooks its products in a coal-fired range.
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
An elegant German-style resort overlooking the Potomoc River.
Phillack, England
St Pialas Well has a dark history, blurred by the passage of time and immortalised by a nearby pub.
Gubbio, Italy
Old-style open-air cages bringing you from Gubbio’s city center to the San'Ubaldo Basilica.
Madison, Wisconsin
Pick up the receiver of this ordinary-looking phone booth and more than ten hours of voices, music, laughter and memories from the past come unexpectedly back through the line.
Tuy Phuoc Dong, Vietnam
Hidden within a massive coastal lagoon, this secret mangrove forest serves as a vital sanctuary for rare and elusive water bird species.
Murphy, North Carolina
This remarkable 125-year-old building has survived a bank heist, a rooftop dragon, and more than a century of changing businesses; today, it lives on as FairyCross Bottle Shop.
Murphy, North Carolina
The world's largest set of the ten commandments lay nestled in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A private museum dedicated to preserving the heritage of Mardi Gras' most beloved underdog parades, open by appointment.
New Orleans, Louisiana
An architectural experiment in the Lower Ninth Ward, this row house is capable of floating as high as the Katrina floodwaters.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Professional and amateur dioramas, taxidermy, and oddities all located in an attic above a gallery.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This Art Deco airport was once deemed “the air hub of the Americas.”
Mandeville, Louisiana
Some believe this tree to be more than 1,500 years old.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
These 11,000-year-old mounds may be the oldest known human-made structures in the Americas.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Crawfish hand pies, Natchitoches meat pies, and all manner of other sweet or savory, flaky-crusted pastries abound here.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
This sculpture may be the only known depiction of a man who helped finance the American Revolution and inadvertently created the dollar sign.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.
St Francisville, Louisiana
Located in a remote part of a Louisiana wildlife refuge, this tree has been standing for more than 1,200 years.
Zachary, Louisiana
One of the last remaining venues on the Old Chitlin’ Circuit is a kaleidoscopic music hall at the end of a dirt road.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.