A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

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

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

An unsanctioned shrine that sprung up outside the late singer's home is causing a stir in London's Highgate neighborhood.

The largest and, arguably, most scenic fortress in Bhutan.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.