This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

Micro-distillery in Brooklyn produces New York’s first homemade rum since Prohibition.

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

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

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

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

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

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

At 929 pounds and 26 feet tall, this stainless steel fork can only be used by the likes of King Kong.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.