The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

An old-timey wax exhibition campily depicting New Orleans legends and scandals.

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

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch were all born in this art deco Manhattan masterpiece.

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

The return of something once considered a basic part of life.

Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.

Historic Greenpoint theater, turned roller disco, now housing a chain pharmacy store.