This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

Glasgow's oldest pub has a proud literary tradition and possibly a ghost or two.

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”

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

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

Learn about the last river many crossed to find freedom from slavery in the United States.

A tunnel that brings more than a century of history to life from the deepest parts of the Niagara Gorge.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

This natural hill rose another 130 feet from the debris and rubble added after World War II.

Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.

Ever wanted the laymen's version of your credit card fine print?

Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

Fake subway tiles were installed to cover a design that resembled the Confederate flag—it's unclear if the resemblance was intentional.

The graveyard holds the remains of Irish immigrants who arrived in Queens after fleeing the Great Famine.

The oldest Methodist church in the United States has been spreading the good news for over two centuries.

The lesser-known Alice sculpture of Central Park dedicated to the “godmother of American children.”

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.

Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.

A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.