The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

This piece of peacetime naval wreckage memorializes the tragic sinking of the USS Maine--an event which sparked the Spanish-American war.

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

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

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

Egyptian Revival obelisks still rise over the old mine shafts.

A collection of more than 10,000 racist objects that teaches the atrocities of social injustice and intolerance in American history.

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

This lovely public park has an intriguing past and unique wooden bridges made of concrete.

An abandoned Victorian-era amusement park is rusting away amidst luxury houses.

Although outnumbered, the Tecumseh Confederacy defeated a large regiment of United States troops.

This solemn facility remembers the cruel effort to compel Native American children to relinquish their culture.

Located in a Civil War era building, this café is engrained with the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe.

Dilapidated Mayan-themed ballroom was one of Detroit's most popular venues through the 40s.

The birthplace of the Ford Model T is now a museum full of antique cars.

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.